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Suspending a Virtual Machine

Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition allows you to suspend a running virtual machine on the physical server by saving its current state to a special file. Later on, you can resume the virtual machine and get it in the same state the virtual machine was at the time of its suspending. Suspending your virtual machines may prove useful, for example, if you need to restart the physical server, but do not want to:

  • quit the applications currently running in the virtual machine
  • spend much time on shutting down the guest operating system and then starting it again

You can use the pctl suspend command to save the current state of a virtual machine. For example, you can issue the following command to suspend the MyVM virtual machine:

# pctl suspend MyVM

Suspending the VM...

The VM has been successfully suspended.

At any time, you can resume the MyVM virtual machine by executing the following command:

# pctl resume MyVM

Resuming the VM...

The VM has been successfully resumed

Once the restoration process is complete, any applications that were running in the MyVM virtual machine at the time of its suspending will be running again and the information content will be the same as it was when the virtual machine was suspended.