Save and restore virtual machines

[kdurski]

Hi.

First of all, thanks for the hard work!

I remember seeing at WWDC that in Sonoma we should be able to suspend a VM:

Save and restore virtual machines

Is this something that is on the roadmap?

[insidegui]

I forgot to reply but was reminded of this today by @Rastafabisch. This is definitely on the roadmap 👍🏻

[kdurski]

Thanks!

[Rastafabisch]

@insidegui I was wondering wether there are any news/ETA regarding said functionality. Apart from this still love VirtualBuddy. Keep up the great work.

[insidegui]

I'm currently working on it in the pause-restore branch. The first iteration is almost done, just missing some UI changes.

[kdurski]

Great news @insidegui, I can't wait :)

[insidegui]

PR opened in #326

[Rastafabisch]

After your merge now, I thought of another addition, which could be a worthy feature of this functionality:

In the currently implemented versioning mode of the Suspend and resume feature, it would be useful if triggering this action would through a dialog where you could set a name of the caved stated, or just hit enter to select the default timestamp based save.

Also I wondered what's the reasoning behind having a dedicated path for those safe states rather than them being part of the .vbvm bundle.

[insidegui]

After your merge now, I thought of another addition, which could be a worthy feature of this functionality:

In the currently implemented versioning mode of the Suspend and resume feature, it would be useful if triggering this action would through a dialog where you could set a name of the caved stated, or just hit enter to select the default timestamp based save.

Also I wondered what's the reasoning behind having a dedicated path for those safe states rather than them being part of the .vbvm bundle.

Both of those points are addressed in the original message of the pull request 🙂