- Select the Home view, and select the virtual machine in the Server Pools folder.
- Right-click on the virtual machine and select Stop from the menu.
How do I turn off VMware virtual machine?
- Click Start > Run, type taskmgr, and click OK. The Task Manager window opens.
- Click the Processes tab.
- Locate the vmware-vmx.exe process.
- Click the vmware-vmx.exe process and click End Process. This stops the virtual machine process and forces it to power off.
- Start the VMware Workstation GUI and confirm.
What happens if you shut down a virtual machine?
When you suspend a virtual machine: Its current state (including the state of all applications and processes running in the virtual machine) is saved to a special file on your Mac (inside virtual machine's bundle). Virtual machine's process is stopped, therefore host RAM and CPU are freed from VM activity.
Can you turn off a virtual machine?
To shut down a virtual machine: Select the Home view, and select the virtual machine in the Server Pools folder. Right-click on the virtual machine and select Stop from the menu.