VMware GSX 3 - Manual (Page 141)

C H A P T E R 4 Managing Virtual Machines and the VMware GSX Server Host
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Setting Standard Virtual Machine Configuration Options
To review and modify basic information about a virtual machine, or to access the
configuration file directly, click the Options tab. The Options page appears.
The Options page displays the following virtual machine information:
• Display Name — identifies the virtual machine in a descriptive way.
• Guest Operating System — indicates the guest operating system installed on
the virtual disk.
• Suspend File Location — specifies the location of the suspended state file; this
file is created when you suspend a virtual machine. It contains information about
the virtual machine’s state at the time at which it was suspended. GSX Server
automatically adds a .vmss suffix to the name of the suspended state file to
ensure that one virtual machine does not overwrite the suspended state file of
another.
• Enable Logging — indicates whether logging is enabled.
• Run with Debugging Information — indicates whether the virtual machine is
running with debugging information. It is useful to enable this option when you
are experiencing problems with this virtual machine, as you can provide this
information to VMware support to help troubleshoot those problems. However,
enabling this setting affects virtual machine performance.
• At System Startup — indicates whether or not this virtual machine should start
when the server starts. By default, virtual machines do not start automatically
when the system starts up.
• Continue Starting Other Virtual Machines After — indicates the amount of
time GSX Server waits after starting the virtual machine before starting another