Hi,
PMJI, nope pause is not suspend. They are different things.
With suspend you are basically sleeping your VM, it will release the memory and CPU it uses.
With pause you just temporarily put it to a stop. It "stuns" the VM, the memory will be assigned to the VM, but the CPU can temporarily be used elsewhere.
I honestly have never used it beyond a few "this is how it works" trials.
But then again I was rarely CPU bound. In the past I would always first run out of RAM, not CPU resources.
See also:
and:
Suspend and Resume a Virtual Machine in Fusion
(pointed to the Fusion 8 docs, not sure anymore when it was introduced, but before Fusion 8)
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Wil