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Resetting a Virtual Machine
Resetting a Virtual Machine
As with physical computers, you may need to perform a hard reset on a guest operating system that has become unresponsive. This is generally not recommended and may cause data loss or disk corruption if the virtual disk is being written when you reset the virtual machine.
To reset a virtual machine, click Reset on the toolbar.
Reset vs. Restart
The Reset button is configurable to take advantage of operating systems that recognize a Restart commandsuch as recent versions of Windows.
1. Choose VM > Settings.
2. Click Options.
3. Select Power.
4. Choose Reset or Restart Guest from the pull down menu.
ResetThis option emulates pressing a hardware reset button on a computer. The guest operating system immediately reboots.
Caution: If a virtual machine is writing to disk when it receives a reset command, data corruption may occur.
Restart GuestThis option sends a restart command to the guest operating system. If the guest operating system recognizes the restart command, command, a graceful shut down occurs and then the guest operating system reboots.
5. Click OK to save your changes.
Note: This setting applies only to the current virtual machine.