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MMI01
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How to restart a suspended virtual machine?

I tried to update Fusion 4.0 to 4.1; after the update failed I could not restart Fusion.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled Fusion 4.0. After reinstalling Fusion 4.0, I am able to see the suspended virtual machines, but I get the following error messages:

Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes.

Failed to initialize monitor device.

Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to

Should delete the suspended virtual machine?  Please help

Matt

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tracywang
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Thanks for using Fusion.

To force restart a VM, you can click Virtual Machine menu, hold option key, the disabled Shut down is changed to enabled Force shutdown.

However, I would like you to restart the Mac and re-try resume the suspended vm, since any unsaved data in suspended mode will lose after force shutdown and a restart helps to avoid "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to" problem.

MMI01
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Thanks Tracywang; I tried to force a restart last night by holding the option key and the menu did change to Force Shutdown, but I was not to select it.  It was still shaded vs bold like the Resume option was.

I am going to shut down then restart the Mac since I have already done a restart and it did not fix the problem.

Thanks for the help.  I will keep you posted.

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MMI01
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Needed to upgrade to 4.1.3, delete the suspended virtual machine, and upgrade the VM tools. 

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WoodyZ
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delete the suspended virtual machine

Did you actually have to delete the whole Virtual Machine or just the .vmss Virtual Machine Suspended State File?

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MMI01
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Sorry I just needed to delete the suspended state and the last snapshot; the virtual machine was left intact.

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