Windows auto update reboot, 2 questions relating to VM

[dennis9999]

I have 2 questions. Am running workstation pro version 10 and have 2 quest virtual machines, winXP and Vista running on a win10 host. When windows decides to update itself I have not found a way to prevent the reboot which shuts down my running guests. It happened last night, when I restarted workstation pro the XP guest acted like it had been suspended and came up exactly as it was before the reboot. The vista guest was completely shut down and had to be restarted, the vista quest has been running in the foreground before the reboot.. When windows issues a shutdown does vmware shut down some guests and not others or in a certain order?

My second question is there any way to prevent windows from rebooting itself after applying updates?

Dennis

[continuum]

> When windows issues a shutdown does vmware shut down some guests and not others or in a certain order?
Good question. As far as I know  Workstation claims to suspend all guests but for me it always kills all of them the hard way.

[dennis9999]

Thank youContinuum it does seem odd that the XP guest was suspended and vista was not. Maybe someone else has has a similar experience. .

Dennis

[ThatGuyISU]

On my Windows 10 host after an update is installed it reboots and does not attempt to suspend or shutdown any of the guest VMs, Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7, or various linux. This has led to multiple corrupt vmdk files although usually the guest OS can recover. There has got to be a way to resolve this! I leave linux VMs running 24/7 for multiple reasons.