I am on an Intel Mac runing Mountain lion with VMware fusion five and I have a mountain lion 10.8.2 VM I am running. With all of my Windows VM's they have the capability for me to choose the persistency of the disk. Do OSX vm's have the same ability? Below is my current VMX file and I do not see the option:
.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "9"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
scsi1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "2048"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Virtual Disk.vmdk"
scsi1:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:0.fileName = "/Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg"
scsi1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
smc.present = "TRUE"
hpet0.present = "TRUE"
ich7m.present = "TRUE"
usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "TRUE"
firmware = "efi"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
displayName = "Mac OS X 10.8 64-bit"
guestOS = "darwin12-64"
nvram = "Mac OS X 10.8 64-bit 2.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
keyboardAndMouseProfile = "macProfile"
proxyApps.publishToHost = "FALSE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
extendedConfigFile = "Mac OS X 10.8 64-bit 2.vmxf"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
scsi1.pciSlotNumber = "32"
scsi1:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0X:xx:xx:xx:"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "160"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "33"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
vmci0.id = "-1367554426"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
uuid.location = "56 4d 4b e9 90 10 96 3b-3e 80 57 59 ae 7c c6 86"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 4b e9 90 10 96 3b-3e 80 57 59 ae 7c c6 86"
cleanShutdown = "TRUE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
scsi0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "67108864"
softPowerOff = "TRUE"
usb:1.speed = "2"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"
usb:1.port = "1"
usb:1.parent = "-1"
gui.viewModeAtPowerOn = "fullscreen"
gui.lastPoweredViewMode = "fullscreen"
usb:0.present = "TRUE"
usb:0.deviceType = "hid"
usb:0.port = "0"
usb:0.parent = "-1"