With a keyboard shortcut, you can switch some of the Fusion power command options that appear in the Virtual Machine drop-down menu and the applications menus, from the default option.
The shortcut applies to the Shut Down/Power Off and Restart/Reset power-option pairs as listed in the Virtual Machine drop-down menu and the applications menus. Pressing the Option or Alt key does not affect the power buttons in the toolbar.
For example, if your virtual machine defaults to the soft options, Shut Down and Restart, holding down either the Option key or the Alt key changes the soft options to the hard options, Power Off and Reset, respectively.
Pressing the Option or Alt key has no effect on other power options.
Note: You can also configure
Fusion to permanently display the hard option or soft option of a power-option pair. Therefore, you can change
Shut Down to
Power Off and
Restart to
Reset. Later, when you access the
Virtual Machine drop-down menu or an applications menu while the virtual machine is in a powered-on state,
Fusion lists the
Power Off option instead of the
Shut Down option and the
Reset option instead of the
Restart option. See
Configure Virtual Machine Power Options.
