Ever had a virtual machine revert to an earlier snapshop by it's self or for no apparent reason?
It happened to us today, and it was partly due to a poorly designed popup message.
In VMware there is an option to tell workstation what to do when you shut down a virtual machine.
The options are:
- Just power off
- Revert to snapshot
- Take a new snapshot
- Ask me
(see attached image)
If you have this on 'ask me' then you will get a popup message when you shut down the virtual machine.
The problem is , that the options on this pop-up have a very wide area that's sensitive to mouse clicks. The clickable area extends right over to the OK button, which if you're not careful, means that if you miss the Okay button, you select the 'revert to snapshot' option.
To prevent this from happening (and it will, usually when things are slow and not working well) set the 'Just power off' option in the settigns for each VM.
Hope that helps!