Power Off a Virtual Machine in Workstation Player

As with physical computers, you should shut down a guest operating system before you power off a virtual machine.

Procedure

• To shut down the guest operating system, shut down the operating system as you would if you were using a physical machine.

  When the guest operating system shuts down, the virtual machine is powered off and Workstation Player exits.

• To power off a virtual machine without shutting down the guest operating system, select Player > Power > Power Off.

  If soft power operations are configured for the virtual machine when the virtual machine is first created, Power Off Guest appears in the menu instead of Power Off.