Changing Advanced Settings

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Changing Advanced Settings

To change advanced virtual machine configuration options, complete the following steps. You must power off the virtual machine before you can make any changes.

To change advanced settings

On the Summary tab, in the Commands section, click Configure Options.
Click Advanced.
- Record run time information - Run with debugging information runs the virtual machine with debugging information, which is useful to have enabled when you are experiencing problems with the virtual machine. You can then provide this information to VMware support to help troubleshoot any problems you are experiencing. The Record statistics option is not available for ESX Server.
- Enable logging - Enables logging for the virtual machine.
- Disable acceleration - Disables acceleration in the virtual machine. You might want to temporarily disable acceleration in a virtual machine if you try to install or start a program in a virtual machine and the program seems to stall, fail, or issue a message that it is running under a debugger. VMware has seen this problem with a few programs. Generally, the problem occurs early in the program's execution. In many cases, you can get past the problem by temporarily disabling acceleration in the virtual machine.

The Disable acceleration setting slows down virtual machine performance, so VMware recommends that you use it only for getting past the problem with running the program. After you pass the point where the program is encountering problems, try returning to the virtual machine settings editor and removing the check beside Disable acceleration. You might then be able to run the program with acceleration.