After 25 minutes with the VMWare support folks they could not answer what you answered above ... unreal. Snapshot management; Snapshot limits. You can use the snapshot manager to review and act on the snapshots for an active virtual machine. Snapshots capture the entire state of the virtual machine at the time you take the snapshot. Taking a snapshot of a virtual machine saves its current state and enables you to return to the same state repeatedly. You can take a snapshot when a virtual machine is powered on, powered off, or suspended. Step 1. Choose VM > Snapshot > Take Snapshot . ... Jump to solution. One thing, I bought a Pro license. Share. vmware-player snapshot. Snapshots and legacy virtual machines — you must upgrade a legacy virtual machine to Workstation 5 before taking a snapshot. If a snapshot has a unique name within a virtual machine, you can revert to that snapshot simply by specifying the path to the virtual machine's configuration file and the snapshot name: [Path to .vmx file][snapshot name] If several snapshots have the same name, you can still specify a snapshot by including a "pathname" for the snapshot name. The other question they did not seem to understand perhaps you could tell me. When VMware finishes the defragmentation process, click the “Compact” button under Disk utilities. likely installing a bad ware or for example getting infected with viruses. To create a snapshot, just click on the + icon (framed in red on the image below). Open VMware workstation and choose your machine. Create a snapshot to save the state of a virtual machine. 2. VMware will compact the underlying virtual hard disk (.vmdk) files to free up space. Hi, I’ve used VMware workstation 15 player in the past and have had the option to take a snapshot of my VMs, but I’ve downloaded version 16 and can’t seem to find the option to take a snapshot, does anyone … For information on upgrading the virtual machine, see Upgrading VMware Workstation.For more information about using Workstation 5 with virtual machines and snapshots created under Workstation versions 3 and 4, see Snapshots and Legacy Virtual Machines. Or is it just for the commercial versions. Follow edited Jan 27 '17 at 14:36. Improve this question. Expand (extend a virtual hard disk) Compact (recover unused space in the virtual hard disk) Clean Up Disks (recover unused space despite snapshots) 1. Just wondering, can you take a snapshot from a free VMWare Player Virtual Machine (VM)? When you take a snapshot, Workstation Pro captures the entire state of the virtual machine. 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