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When you view your virtual machine through a remote console, it behaves much like a separate computer that runs in a window on your computer's desktop.

Instead of using physical buttons to turn this computer on and off, you use buttons at the top of the VMware console window. You can also reset the virtual machine, suspend a virtual machine and resume a suspended virtual machine.

This virtual machine is powered off

This virtual machine is powered on

This virtual machine is suspended

Note: The illustrations above show the toolbar from a remote console running on a Windows management workstation. If you are running the remote console on a Linux management workstation, the appearance of the toolbar is somewhat different, but the same functions are available.

When VMware Tools for Windows is running, the VMware Tools icon appears in the system tray