Turnning off snapshots VMware Player

[Simon_Rodan]

Apologies for what may be a really stupid question.

I've just installed Player on my wife's PC under Ubuntu and the Windows guest appears to be generating rolling snapshots (and generating crippling amounts of IO in the process) so I would like to turn shapshots off.

(I didn't think Player generated snapshots - and it doesn't on my PC)

I don't recall seeing any option in the VM setup. but can I diable them now?

I have no evidence that snapshots are being created other than this output from iotop (also attached)...

   

Many thanks

Simon

[mdunn-vmware]

The VM might have AutoProtect turned on.  AutoProtect snapshots are made by the VMX, so they will be made even you're using the VM in Player.  You can shut down the VM, edit the .vmx file, and look for lines that say rollingTier#.live="TRUE" and change those to FALSE.