How to Take a Snapshots in VMware Player

milly 11:21 am on November 24, 2009 | Answers: 1    
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• milly 11:21 am on November 24, 2009
  

  The snapshot feature is most useful when you want to preserve the state of the virtual machine so you can return to the same state repeatedly.

  To simply save the current state of your virtual machine, then pick up work later with the virtual machine in the same state it was when you stopped, suspend the virtual machine.

  You can take a snapshot of a virtual machine at any time and revert to that snapshot at any time.

  You can take a snapshot while a virtual machine is powered on, powered off or suspended. A snapshot preserves the virtual machine just as it was when you took the snapshot – the state of the data on all the virtual machine’s disks and whether the virtual machine was powered on, powered off or suspended.

  When you close VMware Player, you have two options:
  1. Shutting down.
  2. Suspending.

  • Shutting down the virtual machine is like powering off your computer.
  • Suspending actually creates a snapshot of your VM’s state at that point, which you can restart from it later on.

  VMware Player only supports one snapshot per VM. However, if you need multiple snapshots, you can consider buying VMware workstation version.