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WScott1966
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VMware Player - Configuring Non-Persistent Disk

The Ui does not provide a way to add this setting and I was wondering if it was possible to modify the vmx file to add this manually?

The interest in non-persistent is so the VM will always start in the same state.

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bluefirestorm
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VMware Player does not have the snapshot capability which allows to go back to a previous state. Snapshot feature is available on Workstation Pro.

So the next best thing would be to have a copy of the VM in another folder before powering up. You would then copy back again (and answer "I moved it" on the next power up of the VM, so that the unique IDs of the VM does not change) the next time you would go to the previous state.

If you also want to preserve time state (i.e. start the VM on a specific date/time everytime you start the VM), there are VMX entries for it.

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