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VMware ESX Server Administration Guide
Setting Standard Virtual Machine Configuration Options
To review and modify basic information about a virtual machine, or to access the
configuration file directly, click the Options tab. The Options page appears.
The Options page shows standard virtual machine information:
• Display Name — identifies the virtual machine in a more descriptive way.
• Guest Operating System — the guest operating system installed on the virtual
disk.
• Suspend File Location — the location of the suspended state file (a VMFS
volume); this file is created when you suspend a virtual machine and contains
the information about the virtual machine’s state at the time at which it was
suspended. ESX Server automatically adds a suffix to the name of the suspended
state file to ensure that one virtual machine does not overwrite the suspended
state file of another.
Note: Unlike earlier versions of ESX Server, the suspended state file can only
reside on a VMFS volume; it cannot be located in the directory with the virtual
machine’s configuration file in the service console.
• Enable Logging — whether logging is enabled.
• Run with Debugging Information — whether the virtual machine is running
with debugging information, which is useful to have enabled when you are
experiencing problems with this virtual machine, as you can provide this
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