Exiting Fusion?

[MM07]

How do you do it?

I just noticed that Fusion says that I should exit from the OS that I'm using instead of closing Fusion by CMD-Q.

Does it matter?

 

[ColinEC]

Shutdown the virtualized operating system first, then quit the program.

 

[MM07]

I will do this from now on...thanks.

 

[mreg376]

How do you do it?

I just noticed that Fusion says that I should exit from the OS that I'm using instead of closing Fusion by CMD-Q.

Does it matter?

Think of Fusion as your physical Windows machine (since it is a "virtual" machine) on which you have an OS running. Would you just unplug the machine, or shut down the OS first?

 

[steveza]

A standard choice when running virtual machines is just to suspend them. That way you don't have to wait for the machine to start up each time. In Fusion the pause button will suspend the session and when you start the virtual machine again it will resume from the save state.

Just a few points to keep in mind about suspended virtual machines, 1. it is not possible to change the hardware configuration while it's suspended (you need to shut it down first) and 2. don't delete files associated with your VM as it may not start again.

 

[Consultant]

A standard choice when running virtual machines is just to suspend them. That way you don't have to wait for the machine to start up each time. In Fusion the pause button will suspend the session and when you start the virtual machine again it will resume from the save state.

Just a few points to keep in mind about suspended virtual machines, 1. it is not possible to change the hardware configuration while it's suspended (you need to shut it down first) and 2. don't delete files associated with your VM as it may not start again.

As you said, there are some problems with suspending windows.

The last time I checked, suspending a vmware machine that uses bootcamp partition and then try to boot into windows natively will cause problems.

In a real wintel machine, it's actually faster to shut down and start windows, as suspending windows makes it slow after waking up for some reason.

 

[mreg376]

As you said, there are some problems with suspending windows.

The last time I checked, suspending a vmware machine that uses bootcamp partition and then try to boot into windows natively will cause problems.

In a real wintel machine, it's actually faster to shut down and start windows, as suspending windows makes it slow after waking up for some reason.

True, although in Fusion suspension is being done by Fusion suspending the virtual machine instead of Windows suspending itself. The Fusion suspension process has (thus far) been rapid and reliable.