topic Re: State Change Confirmation in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions

State Change Confirmation

trb_oti — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:41:57 GMT

Does anyone know how to enable the popup confirmation for changing the power state on the VM.

I use the Ctrl+E hotkey in the VM all the time. If the cursor drifts out of the VM and the hotkey is trigger it previously asked if I really wanted to power it off. Now it is instant.

Thanks.

Re: State Change Confirmation

trb_oti — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:46:43 GMT

Looks like changing hard to soft in the vmx file resolves the issue.

powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"

Re: State Change Confirmation

wila — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:28:39 GMT

Hi,

Cool to hear that you found a solution.

Note that you can also disable those shortcut keys if you don't use them...

See here:

https://www.vi-toolkit.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vmx_hacks#Disable_all_Power_menu_and_keyboard_shortcuts

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Wil