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Workstation backup - vmrun - What constitutes "powered off" and how can i check

Hi all, had a good old google but couldn't find info on this:

In the vmware article: Best practices when backing up a VmWare workstation virtual machine

It mentions that before the copy operation, the vm needs to be in a 'powered off' state.

Does this mean the vm needs to be shutdown completely, or is pause/suspend sufficient?

If it needs total shutdown, how can i check with the command line if there are machines paused/suspended?

when executing 'vmrun list', we get a list of running machines but this does not include suspended/paused machines.

Any help would be massively appreciated.

 

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