Questions tagged [vmware-fusion]
A commercial virtualization product offered by VMware for the Mac OS X operating system.
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How to fix VMWare Fusion Pro 10, "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
I recently upgraded to macOS High Sierra and VMWare Fusion Pro 10.
My Windows 10 Pro VM will no longer run. When I open it with Fusion, I see the following message:
"New Features are avialable for ...
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How do I install VMware player on a Mac os X?
I went to their site, and downloaded a .bundle which automagically turned into a .txt file after downloading.
Long story short, I can't run the txt file because I guess Mountain Lion Mac os X isn't ...
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How can I simulate a slow machine in a VM?
I'm testing an AJAX-heavy web-application. I develop on a new Mac, but I use VmWare Fusion (currently 3.1.2) to test in Windows XP, using IETester to simulate older versions of IE.
This lets me see ...
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How do I find the IP address of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion?
Can I determine the IP of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion without actually entering the operating system running on the virtual machine? I'm looking for a menu option, command line, or otherwise ...
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OSX 10.10 Yosemite slow on VMware
I was having OSX Mavericks 10.9 in Vmware. It was working fine with VMware Tools installed and SVGA Drivers also. When Yosemite released, I updated it from App Store.
I cam across many problems on ...
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How to share a VPN connection in a VMWare Guest VM with the Host
The need
This question is relevant for all of those who want to bypass their corporate's annoying VPN, and access their work/corporate network from their private computer, especially if the corporate ...
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No /mnt/hgfs in Ubuntu guest under VMWare Fusion
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 inside of VMware Fusion Pro 5. I have the virtual machine configured for read-only sharing of my home directory, but there's no /mnt/hgfs directory and there's no /etc/...
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Getting an error trying to set up shared folders on an Ubuntu instance of VMWare Fusion running on OSX
Receiving the following error:
Unable to update runtime folder sharing status: There was an error
mounting Shared Folders file system inside the guest operating system.
Running VMWare Fusion 5.0....
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Parallels vs Vmware Fusion for running Windows on Mac OS X
Has anyone used both of these? Is one clearly superior to the other? I notice they are the same price. Any pros and cons?
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How do I force VMware virtual machine to enter the BIOS setup
I am using VMware Fusion 2.0.6. I want to boot virtual machine from iso file. How do I get into bios and change boot options?
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Can you shrink the sparse disk image of a Mac OS X guest OS in VMWare Fusion?
I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac to run a virtual Windows 7 machine, and the Microsoft IE compatibility Windows XP virtual machines.
In VMWare Tools on the Windows guest OSes, there’s a “Shrink” option ...
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Visual Studio: significant performance difference on VMware Fusion vs Bootcamp?
I've just purchased a new MacBook Pro and was looking at installing Windows 7 via Bootcamp, so that i can do Visual Studio development work, but i was thinking it would make more sense to move my non ...
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How do I convert a .vhd disk image to work with VMWare Fusion 2?
I’ve just installed VMWare Fusion 2 on my Mac.
Microsoft makes available some Virtual PC disk images containing different versions of IE, so that us humble web developers can test our code on them:
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VMware Fusion performance degrading after few hours
I've been having an issue with VMware Fusion for some time now, where the VM (running Windows) runs fine initially, but will slow down to a grind after some time (best guess is a couple of hours). It'...
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Windows 8.1 VM Thinks it's on a Touchscreen
I'm running Win 8.1 on an OS X system via VMware Fusion. I frequently get the "helpful" tips to swipe from here or there to do this or that, which of course I can't do. In addition, many sites force ...
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How to convert a Physical OS X machine to Virtual Machine
I would like to migrate an existing OSX 10.9.5 machine to a 10.9.5 Guest VM running on a 10.10.1 host.
My situation is:
I own a 10.9.5 MBP that I use everyday. I have development tools on the ...
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What is thnuclnt, vmware
After starting VMware, I noticed that there are more than 10 processes called 'thnuclnt'.
They're listening on the port 4000. (Since i use this port for something else, it's annoying.)
I'm wondering ...
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Address VMWare Fusion Linux guest by hostname?
I have a Ubuntu Server 9.04 image set up in VMWare Fusion 3.0.0, using the NAT option for the guest's network connection. From the Mac host, I can ssh to the linux guest just fine using it's IP ...
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VMWare Fusion access guest vm (windows) from host (mac)
I am needing to access the localhost of a guest windows 8 vm from my Mac OS (10.9) host. The windows 8 vm is running in VMWare Fusion. How can I do this?
I have tried getting the guest ip address ...
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Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion? [closed]
Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion?
In a recent article on Australian LifeHacker.com they discussed the following question, I trust the SU group more then the anonymous answers from ...
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Legal to install an OEM license of Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion?
I have a desktop (HP) and a laptop (MacBook Pro). HP is currently running Vista Ultimate. (It came with Vista Premium; I formatted it and installed Vista Ultimate because I had a license for that on ...
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Using multiple screens with very different DPI simultaneously in Windows 8.1?
I'm running Windows 8.1 inside VMWare Fusion 6. I have two screens:
Macbook Pro Retina aka MBPr (15", 220 ppi)
External HDMI monitor (24", 96 ppi)
VMWare Fusion IS indeed allowing me to use the ...
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How to install Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in VMWare? [closed]
I'm pretty new to Macs and would like to familiarize myself with the latest Mac OS. How do I install Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) in VMware? Is it possible without a lot of hacking around ...
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non-persistence in VMware Fusion
I am trying to configure a VMware VM to have a non-persistent disk. This is as simple as making the disk independent f the VM, and selecting the non-persisent option. How do I do this in VMWare ...
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Merge non-contiguous partition on Windows 10
I have a Windows 10 VM on a Mac using VMWare Fusion. I just extended the disk from 60 GB to 80GB. Now I'm trying to figure out how to add that space to my C: drive. The option to "Extend Volume..." is ...
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Can't mount ISO image in Windows 8 inside VMWare Fusion
When I try to mount an image (in this case, Project Pro 2013) in Windows 8 that is running inside a virtual machine (VMWare Fusion, running on OSX) I get the following message
Couldn't Mount File
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How to convert laptop drive for use as VMware image?
I have a windows laptop that recently died (dead motherboard). It being a 7 year old laptop, I decided to give Apple a try this time around and try to use VMware to access my old data if necessary.
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How to prevent OSX from putting a computer to sleep when a VM is running in VMWare Fusion
I have discovered the hard way that bad things happen to my VMs if my macbook pro goes to sleep while a VM is running.
Is there a way to prevent my computer from being put to sleep when VMWare Fusion ...
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when using a mac VM with VMWare, how do I use command key within the VM?
I have a apple computer, and am running the apple operating system within a VM on that machine. The VM is running with VMWare.
How do I send keyboard combos that use the command key to the VM? When ...
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Visual Studio Development on Virtual Box, Boot Camp, or VMWare Fusion
I currently have a Mac, 2ghz and 2 gigs of ram, running OS X Leopard and Virtual Box with a Windows 7 Pro 32bit virtual machine.
Performance on the virtual machine is fine for minor tasks but is very ...
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Best way to share guest folder with host computer
I am running a Ubuntu VM on my MacOS X (host) using VMWare Fusion. I have found a lot of information about sharing the host partition with the guest VM but not much on sharing the guest folder/...
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How do you close a VMWare Fusion VM Window without shutting it down or suspending it?
There are a few parts to this question.
The first is:
I'm running a virtual machine guest using vmrun and nogui, when I open the VMWare Fusion application, the window library opens but subsequently ...
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Windows XP hangs when shutting down in VMWare Fusion
Here's the background:
I use a Macbook from this year and run VMWare Fusion (newest update). One of my VM's is Windows XP Professional. Two times recently, I have brought up the VM window to see that ...
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Converting DMG to VMDK
How can I convert a DMG into a VMDK file? I had a laptop hard drive which i turned into a DMG. I want to make a VM that uses that drive. How can I turn this DMG into a working VMDK or boot from this ...
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xmonad on debian: how to change screen resolution
I've installed xmonad in a debian vmware vm on osx. In Gnome I changed the screen resolution to 1440/900 using the GUI menu but this change did not affect the resolution I get when I'm logged in with ...
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Can I convert my OS X Lion into a VMware virtual machine?
Is it possible to convert the current OS X Lion 10.7.1 install on my Mac Mini (i5, 8GB RAM) into a virtual machine via VMWare converter? I use VMware Fusion 4.
Or, is my only option to set up the ...
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How to use the control key in VM Ware?
When I use the control key and I click with the left mouse button, it behaves like the right mouse button. I don't want this, I want to select multiple files when I hol the control key.
I've tried ...
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How to fix Bootcamp Fusion VM after OSX El Capitan update?
Ugh... I just upgraded to El Capitan, rebooted and tried to fire up my Fusion 7 VMs to make sure everything was ok. I can see the Bootcamp partition from Finder, but when I try to start it in Fusion I ...
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Developing .NET on a 2011 MacBook Pro via Windows 7 VMWare Fusion Virtual Machine
I can't seem to find a duplicate question, so please excuse (and redirect) me if this question has already been asked.
I just recently got a 2011 MBP. I am a .NET developer, and as such, am totally ...
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Mac OS X Server 10.6.6 "disables" CPU in VMware Fusion
I installed Mac OS X Server 10.6.0 in VMWare Fusion the other night and it worked perfectly, until I ran Software Update. I upgraded to 10.6.6 through the combo updater, and now when I start the VM it ...
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VMWare Fusion 3 Performance Tuning
I am running VMWare Fusion 3 on a MacBook 2.4 with 4MB RAM. I would love to get some more speed out of this VM, are there some settings or particular configurations that will help me get the most out ...
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VMware Fusion - How to SSH into a VM when not on a network?
So I have a MacBook Pro here running Mavericks and VMWare Fusion 6.
I have an Ubuntu Server VM I need for a project running. It snags a static IP on the network.
Now I like to completely ignore / ...
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Remove associations with applications in VMWare Fusion
One of the "features" of VMWare Fusion is that it associates files on the Mac host with programs in the VM. Unfortunately I uninstalled VMWare Fusion, and my Mac still has applications in VMWare ...
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How to assign a static IP address to my VMWare machine?
I currently have two VMWare Fusion VMs setup on my development machine. The first one (Windows Server 2003) has a static IP address, and I am using my hosts file to direct certain URLs to it.
I would ...
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How do I start programs automatically when Mac OS X boots up? Specifically VMWare Fusion's vmrun to start VMs
How do I configure programs to run automatically when (after) Mac OS X boots up?
Specifically I am trying to get VMWare VMs to start automatically after an OS X reboot but running any (non-graphical) ...
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vmware fusion: how is the gateway IP decided in NAT networking mode?
I recently did a clean install from Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Mac OS X Lion.
I put all my Vmware Fusion guests in NAT mode with static IP'. All this time in Snow Leopard I had all my guest OS' ...
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USB Drive will not mount in OSX Guest in VMWare Fusion
I have a Yosemite (10.10.2) host with a Mavericks (10.9.5) guest in VMWare 7.
I have a seagate 3TB drive mounted on Yosemite.
I connect the seagate to the guest using the icon on the toolbar. The ...
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How can I share OS X fonts with Windows XP when using vmware-fusion?
When using VMware Fusion, is there any way to share fonts between the base OS (i.e., OS X) and the virtualized OS (e.g., Windows XP)? If so, how?
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Why do Finder and du report different file size?
I am writing a geektool 3 script to show the size of a particular VMware Fusion virtual machine. Such .vmwarevm "file" is really a packaged directory.
Get Info in Finder says the file is "52.91 GB". ...
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virtual machine is stored is almost full yet Window C drive says 29GB free
Getting message vmware has paused this virtual machine because the disk which virtual machine is stored iss almost full. to continue, free up 962 MB of disk space.
My Mac has over 160GB free. Bootcamp ...
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