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Creating a Screen Shot or a Movie of a Virtual Machine
Creating a Screen Shot or a Movie of a Virtual Machine
This section describes two features
Screen Shot Capture
You can capture a screen shot of a virtual machine. Use VM > Capture Screen. You can save this image as a bitmap (.bmp) file on a Windows host or as a portable network graphics (.png) file on a Linux host.
Movie Capture
You can capture a movie of your activity within a virtual machine. Workstation saves this image as an .avi file on the host.
Recording a Movie
To capture a movie of virtual machine activity:
1. Select VM > Capture Movie.
A save file dialog appears.
2. Enter information for your movie, and click Save.
Type the file name of the move file you want to save. The default name is based on the active virtual machine.
Select the directory location where you want the movie to be stored.
Select High, Medium or Low quality from the drop-down menu. This choice determines the compression and therefore the file size of the resulting movie.
Click the check box to omit repetitive movie frames which do not change. This is useful for conserving file size and increasing brevity of the movie.
A red circlea virtual LEDappears on the lower right in the status bar while movie capture is active.
3. Within the virtual machine, perform the actions you want to appear in the move.
4. Select VM > Stop Movie Capture.
The red circle disappears from the status bar.
Playing a Movie Requires VMware Codec
You can play back your movie in any compatible media player. However, a VMware codec must be installed. This codec is automatically installed on a machine with VMware Workstation. A separately downloadable installer is also available for playback on machines without VMware Workstation installed.