Hi.
can't remember if I made a snap shot or not, but if I didn't, I will keep that
in mind when i get windows going again.
regards
Maria and crew from australia
[email protected]
On 15 Jul 2014, at 5:43 pm, Paul Erkens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Maria and Joe,
>
> Did you create any snapshots with fusion? A snapshot is a certain moment in
> time that you captured, when windows was still just fine. Every week, I
> create a snapshot in fusion, as long as windows is healthy. This way, if
> something like this does happen, then you can always go back to the latest
> snapshot, and all you loose, is data from the time the snapshot was taken,
> until now.
>
> Of course, you can backup windows using its tools, but a snapshot really is a
> great benefit. So if you did make a snapshot, then simply restore it and
> you're good to go again.
>
> For those interested: at any given time, you can make a snapshot of the
> current state of windows. It is like a full backup, but done by fusion, and
> therefore it is blazingly fast, without sacrificing anything a full backup
> gives you. While windows is off, and you know it's still healthy, just go
> into the fusion menu bar with VO plus m, go to the right over to virtual
> machine, and then down to snapshots. Once the dialog opens, use the toolbar
> to create a snapshot. That's all you need to do to make a full backup of your
> vm.
> If you get in trouble, return to this dialog.
> You'll see a list of previously created snapshots if you made any, and if you
> select one from that list, just hit restore in the toolbar and windows is
> back to the state it was in when you took that particular snapshot. Unlike a
> backup, which takes minutes to restore, restoring windows to a previous
> fusion snapshot is a matter of seconds.
>
> The snapshots are stored in your fusion folder, together with the data that
> contains your virtual windows. If you see that your snapshots are taking up
> too much mac disk space, you can easily get rid of them from the fusion
> interface.
>
> Hth,
> Paul.
> On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> HI listers.
>>
>> All of a sudden, I am having problems with vmware fusion. I am using an
>> older version of vmware with windows 7. Until now, everything has worked
>> fine. Tonight though, it said windows was running, but I got no log in sound
>> or anything. Does anyone have any idea of what could be happening and what I
>> can do to fix it?
>>
>> thanks
>> Maria and Joe Chapman
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
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