Is it possible to “power off” a suspended VM Workstation? Yes. I had this problem when I tried to resume a suspended VM on Workstation 6.5 and it kept getting an error. I knew there was nothing going on when I suspended it so I decided to just power it down. Well, there is no option for that.
What you have to do is go into the folder that contains the VM and delete or as I did rename the .vmss files. If you rename them make sure the name change is in or after the extension. Example: myvmfile.vmss.old. This essentially pulls the plug on the power. You should be able to boot up your VM now.
