Shut down my PC and leave VMware on
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Hello, I am currently setting up my virtual machine with VMware Workstation Player with Windows 11, and when I turn off my laptop, the VMware virtual machine that was created does not stay on. If someone could tell me how to keep VMware running when a laptop is turned off. Thank you, best regards.
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Hello,
It seems that you have encountered a common problem related to using virtual machines with VMware Workstation Player on a laptop. Unfortunately, a virtual machine (https://www.univirtual.ch/fr/business-core/virtualisation-telecommunication/machine-virtuelle) cannot stay on if the host computer is turned off, as the VM relies on the resources of the host computer to function.
However, here are some alternative solutions you might consider:
1. Put the computer in hibernation or sleep mode: Instead of completely turning off your laptop, you can put it in hibernation or sleep mode. This will allow your univirtual VM to resume where it left off when you turn your computer back on.
2. Use a dedicated server for the VM: If you need the virtual machine to remain on permanently, you might consider using a dedicated server or another computer that will remain on at all times to host your VM.
3. Save the state of the VM: Before turning off your laptop, you can save the state of the virtual machine. This way, when you restart your computer and relaunch VMware Workstation Player, you can restore the VM exactly to the state it was in before the shutdown.
4. Use cloud solutions: For constant availability needs, you might consider moving your virtual machine to a univirtual cloud computing service. These platforms offer solutions to keep virtual machines active at all times, regardless of your personal computer.
Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any further questions or need additional assistance.
Best regards.
Hello
It's quite simple, there are settings for "what the power button does when we 'shut down' the PC, you need to start by 'not shutting down' the PC.
(At night, my PC is running, it's not in sleep mode, and I can't afford to leave a program running due to inattention)
Essential for consumption, to allow the screen to turn off when we're no longer in front of it.
> The only alternative, the VM is programmed from the laptop.
But it doesn't run on the laptop. Remotely, we make another computer work somewhere on a server. (which itself never shuts down)
Hello,
If it weren't so mind-boggling, I would say that more and more questions are appearing on our forum, which are certainly legitimate but indicate a bias in understanding computing, physics, and their realities.
With all due respect to our visitors, it’s like trying to use an iron (electric) without plugging it in, or as we've seen on our channels, wanting to access the internet without a subscription with a provider (a request sometimes made).
@ Franck88, it might be worth first ensuring that the virtual OS is functioning properly under the necessary operating conditions, and more reasonably (perhaps) looking into the possibility of restarting the host program and its "proxy" on a machine that has been put to sleep (or potentially woken up by the network, which is another saga).
As far as I know, a virtual environment only works within a host program and therefore on a computer whose session has been activated.
That said, since CCM aims to enrich its knowledge, I am open to any corrections or counterarguments from specialists, which I obviously am not.
Hello,
There is no contraindication to starting the host PC via Wake On Lan if it is capable of doing so, but this means that we will still need to start the host machine beforehand, even if some shortcut launches the virtual machine at startup.
We live in a wonderful world; in the wave of news reports about juvenile delinquency, the Prime Minister visited a boarding school yesterday intended to "put them back on the right track."
It turned out that the young people in question had never heard of him (or anything else) except on TikTok; such a system of exclusivity of "social" networks is likely to distort the perception of reality.
I was vaguely referring to communications indicating that wake-on-lan was not as universal as that (if I remember correctly, outside the local network, that is to say if one wants to activate it remotely).
But it's obviously doable, knowing that both OSs must be running at startup of course (we had the impression that Franck88 wanted to keep only the hosted OS active).
As notaries say, the act stands without any word erased or crossed out.
As you pointed out, Wake On Lan is LAN, and which by definition is supposed to go through another machine on the local network, but even if it could be activated from the outside, it is impossible to start a virtual machine on a PC unless the machine hosting it is not only turned on but also has previously launched the host OS that will enable virtualization.