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Force integrated graphics card on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion when working with VMware Fusion 5.x?
I want to force the GPU on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15 (A1286) to remain on the integrated GPU while I run VMWare Fusion 5.x.
The gfxCardStatus software doesn't work on 10.8. Is there another solution?
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How can one use /etc/paths.d to add a path with spaces in it to $PATH?
I recently installed VMware Fusion 10 on a Mac running macOS 10.12.6. After doing so, my bash PATH is broken. I traced the problem to a /etc/paths.d path file that Fusion installed; it contains the ...
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Can I run a virtual machine from my iPad?
I have a Windows virtual machine that I want to open it from my iPad using VirtualBox, Vmware client, or any free App that allows me to open a virtual machine file (I assume it is local to my iPad).
I ...
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Is it safe to upgrade to Yosemite when using VMWare Fusion 6?
I'm currently running OS X 10.9.5. Within that I have Windows 8 running in VMWare Fusion 6.0.4 for some critical (but Windows only unfortunately) applications that I use daily.
Is it safe to upgrade ...
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VMWare Fusion - Where does a shared folder appear if the Virtual OS is “Snow Leopard Server”?
I have a Mac running VMWare Fusion with "Snow Leopard Server" running as the guest, virtual OS.
It says that I can specify a shared folder to shared between the main Mac OS and the virtual Snow ...
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How can I remove a program from "Open With"?
I recently installed VMWare Fusion and added Windows 7. Now when I right-click on a text file and choose Open With, there's an option to open with Notepad in Windows 7. This is not something I want ...
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Can I have a stable IP address for a virtual machine under VMWare?
I'm using VMWare to emulate Ubuntu on my Leopard Mac OS X.
The IP address changes everytime I put the Mac to sleep.
I was wondering if I can avoid that.
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Where is the keyboard profile file stored on my MacBook for VMware Fusion 8?
I am trying to add some keyboard shortcuts to VMware Fusion 8 but the dialog is kinda wonky:
Here the two dropdowns doesn't drop down, so any key I don't have on my MacBook is impossible to configure....
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How to purchase Windows for my planned VMWare Fusion setup -- via online download, etc
Apologies for this common question, but answers online are often patchy and a few details always elude me.
-- I plan to buy VMWare Fusion for my Mac Powerbook (core 2 duo.) So I need to buy a copy ...
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How to let my VM connect the network?
On my Mac, I use VMware Fusion created a VM, my Mac's ifconfig is like below:
aircraftdeMacBook-Pro:.ssh ldl$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=1203&...
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Open MS Office documents on Windows 7 guest VM in OS X host using Office for Mac
I am running OS X Lion, VMware Fusion 4.1.2 which points to the Windows 7 installation created for Boot Camp.
When I am in my Windows 7 VM, I want to double click on files (.pdf., word .docx, .pptx, ...
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Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard shortcuts via VMware Fusion
I use OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and have VMware Fusion 7.1.1 where Ubuntu 14.04 has been installed. Moreover, I have installed VMware tools patches.
Copy and paste between Mac and Ubuntu using keyboard ...
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Mac as virtual machine guest: How to use multiple displays?
I'm working on a test environment for testing Mac software. The plan is to use virtual machines (for example VMWare or Parallels) and install older versions as guest operating system, allowing me to ...
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How to install OS X 10.7 and 10.8 in VMWare Fusion, on a 10.9 host?
I'm working on fairly new Mac Mini, running OS X 10.9.4 and VMWare Fusion Pro 6.0.4.
For software testing purposes, I want to install both a OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion inside a ...
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Virtualization of OSX: Read-only main VM, delta stored separately?
I would like to have a (Mountain) Lion VM that I configure in a specific way, and store that in a particular place on the the system hard drive. This is simple enough.
However, I would also like ...
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Installing VMware on MacBook - Free version
I need to install Windows 8 on my MacBook. So I am hoping to install VMware and then install Windows 8 on top of it.
I need to know if I need to install VMware Player or VMware Fusion? I am using ...
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VMWare Fusion 7: File Not Found
I screwed up big time when I tried deleting my Windows 7 VM on VMWare Fusion 7 on my Macbook Air. I put the VM in the Trash and emptied the trash. Now when I try to create a new VM, I get File Not ...
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Why does OS X prevent access to a folder if it ends with the word ".service"?
I am sharing a win 7 folder and trying to access it from Osx.
Everything works but if the folder is named something ending with the words ".service" the folder is not accessible any more, the icon is ...
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What are the licensing concerns running Mac OS X guest OS on VMWare ESXi 5.5 with non-apple hardware?
How do I install Mac OS X as a guest OS on VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1 running on non apple hardware?
We currently have a large deployment of HP server hardware running VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1. We have ...
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Creating High Sierra as VM under VMware Fusion
I need to create a VM for macOS High Sierra to run with VMware Fusion. I would prefer this VM be created from my existing MacBook running High Sierra (a real, physical device), but that's not ...
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VMware fusion 4 won't launch due to out of date, running guests
When running the Upgrade Installer from VMware Fusion 3.1.3 to v4.0.1, this dialog pops up:
A virtual machine is running with an older version of VMware Fusion.
Please use the older version of VMware ...
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Retina Macbook Pro BootCamp vs Parallells Performance
I'm thinking of getting rid of my old gaming PC and just bootcamping / virtualizing on my Retina Macbook Pro.
I've tried using a VM (VMWare Fusion) and the performance there was pretty awful, has ...
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Is it better to use MacPorts or just use an Ubuntu VM for local tools/services when developing on a Mac?
As a developer (primarily JVM-based web apps), I need to use a lot of different tools and services, such as Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQL, git, mercurial, etc. Having worked in a Linux environment where such ...
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Is VMWare Fusion bought through the MacUpdate Spring 2012 Bundle a full valid version?
I'm considering buying VMWare Fusion 4. On vmware.com it's available for $49.99. MacUpdate is currently also offering a bundle which includes VMWare Fusion and 10 other apps, for a total price of $49....
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Corresponding ipfw rules in MacOS for this Iptables rules
I need to give Internet access to a VM under Vmware fusion 7 in Host-Only mode. I know how to do it in Linux, with the following IPtables rules:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
iptables -A FORWARD -o ...
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Does Fusion (VMware) support 2D graphics hardware acceleration for Yosemite guest OS?
I am disappointed to learn that the Parallels 10 (and earlier) does not support hardware accelerated 2D (nor 3D) graphics when Mac OS X is the guest OS.
This means Yosemite inside Parallels runs ...
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What is the difference between various VM solutions?
I'm new to the Mac platform and need to figure out which virtualization platform is best for me.
Is there a comparison list of features (and missing features) for each of the major virtualization ...
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How can I get VMWare Fusion 4.0 to work on Mountain Lion?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I find that when I attempt to launch VMWare Fusion 4.0 I receive the error:
You can't use this version of the application "VMWare Fusion" with this version of OS X
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Incorrect keyboard mapping on OS X guest in vmware fusion
I have installed OS X Mavericks as a guest on a macbook pro with vmware fusion 6.
To do this, I followed the instructions at the following:
Creating a new OS X virtual machine from the recovery ...
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Copy and paste between Mac and headless linux VM
I'm running VMWare Fusion on an OSX host machine. I have a redhat VM installed, along with VMWare tools. My VM is headless, meaning I just have the terminal (no graphical interface of any kind). Is ...
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Is parallels 7 better in performance then Vmware Fusion 4?
I got Vmware Fusion 4 when I bought my MAC Book Pro ( core i7 2.0Ghz Quad Core 6MB Cache, 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD). I installed Win7 first on Vmware and then later WinXp. In both case the Virtual ...
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How to turn on Intel VT in MacBook Pro 2011 (MC721LL/A)?
I used to turn on virtualization on my PC by turning it on from BIOS. But how I do it on MacBook Pro, as I am using WinXP on VMware Fusion 4.0, but its very slow, and both Windows XP and Mac OS starts ...
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Suspending VMWare Fusion instance that uses Boot Camp partition?
I run my Windows 7 that's installed on Boot Camp via VMWare Fusion. I like keeping it open so that I don't need to wait 3 minutes until it starts up and so that I don't need to login every time I ...
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How to enable routing in OS X El Capitan
I've got a Linux VMware virtual machine (guest) configured with a NAT adapter on a 192.168.56.0 subnet. Its IP address is 192.168.56.128 and my Mac (host) got 192.168.56.1. Guest's default gateway is ...
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Font size in VMWare Fusion on my Mac
Since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F1021) on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) the font size on my VMware Fusion is minuscule and I cannot figure out how to increase the font size. ...
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Creating a test environment for Mac software
My company develops commercial Mac software. Our flagship product runs on OS X 10.6.8+. We want to improve our software quality with better and more comprehensive testing.
What hardware and OS's ...
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VMware Fusion virtual machine from a local partition
When you have a Windows partition on your system, VMware can see and boot a virtual machine from partition.
However, with other OS X and Linux partition, there's no such option. Is there a way to ...
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How to drag and drop between guests in VMware Fusion
My host is Mac OS X 10.6, and on my VWware Fusion, I have Windows 7 and Windows XP as my guest. I can drag and drop files between my guest and my host, but not between my guests (cannto drag and drop ...
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Installing Windows 8 Preview on a Mac? [closed]
I'm just wondering if anyone has figured this out yet. VMWare throws an ugly "internal monitor error" and there are apparently some graphics driver issues on the 2011 Macbook Pros.
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Mapping Home and End of Apple keyboard in VMWare fusion
I have mapped the Home and End keys of my apple keyboard to work PC style: Go to the beginning of the line and end respectively. (Using DoubleCommand if that is important, I am aware of other ways of ...
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What are the technical and license restrictions around virtualization for Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion?
I have a 500 GB hard drive on my MacBook Pro. I have OS X 10.7 (Lion) on my main partition and Windows 7 Ultimate on a secondary partition. Because I have older applications that I would like to run ...
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Auto login boot camp partition in VMWare Fusion?
My VMWare Fusion is set up to use a Boot Camp partition. Is there any way to have it automatically login to a user account when the virtual machine starts up, but still require a password when booting ...
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Will a virtualised copy of Mountain Lion on recent hardware run the Adobe CS5 Suite with comparable performance to an Early 2009 iMac?
My father runs an old version of MacOS, I believe Mountain Lion, with a full set of Adobe apps, Suitcase Fusion, and so on from back when they were all 'buy-once' products. Reading around, almost none ...
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Downloading old Safari point releases (Ex: 8.0.4)
I am attempting to build VMware Fusion images with each recent point release of Safari. I've had success with the versions bundled with OS X updates (10.10.1, 10.10.2) but I am not sure if it's ...
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OS X Lion Virtual Machine on Yosemite?
I have a Mid-2014 MacBook Pro (Retina), running OS X Yosemite. I would like to run OS X Lion within a virtual machine.
Is this setup supported by Parallels/VirtualBox/VMware, even though this MacBook ...
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Can I access data on Windows outside VMWare from within the OS X VM?
I am running OS X Mountain Lion on VMWare Workstation installed on Windows 7. How can I access my Xcode projects outside VMWare (i.e. from host)? I know I can do this by copying projects in the shared ...
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Vmware Fusion, how to remove suspend option completely
I have good number of virtual XP and W7 machines on our domain, one thing always cause problems when multiple users are using the same machine. There's always that one person whom put the vm session ...
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metasploit nmap VMware Fusion 5
Has anyone had success using nmap within msfconsole to target a specific host on a VM virtual network?
For example, the following command works from a Terminal prompt:
nmap -sT -A 172.16.187.128
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Windows not booting up on VM Fusion. Need to get a file off of windows
I am a pilot that has my logbook on the windows side of my iMac. Windows has been failing to boot up gives me an 000021a error every time. I have tried booting in last known good configuration and is ...
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VMware: Shared folders on mac not updated on the virtual machine
I'm using vmware on mac to emulate Ubuntu.
When I change shared folders files on OSX I don't see the changes (automatically updated) in Ubuntu...
When I added the folder, everything was visible and ...
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