The Priority tab lets you determine whether your snapshots are taken and restored in the foreground or background. Taking a snapshot is not an instantaneous process. Enabling background snapshots allows you to continue working while VMware Server completes the snapshot process invisibly in the background.
Check the Take and restore snapshots in the background box for snapshot activity to occur only in the background. You must restart the virtual machine for this feature to take effect. The status of an in-progress background snapshot is displayed in the lower left corner of the VMware Server Console window.
Enabling background snapshots for a host with slow hard disks can affect performance. If you experience significant performance problems when taking or restoring snapshots, turn off this option.
Note: You must wait until VMware Server finishes taking a snapshot before you engage in any more snapshot activity.
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