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Install MacOS 10.12.2 on VMWare Fusion 8.5.3
I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.12.2.
It has VMWare Fusion 8.5.3.
I have downloaded Install macOS Sierra into the /Applications folder.
How do I install macOS 10.12.2 into VMWare Fusion.
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Will the new 2015 "MacBook" be able to run VMs effectively? Windows especially
I currently use a 2Ghz i7 x 8gb Memory 2013 MacAir. With this I am able to effectively run a windows 8 VM running Visual Studio Professional and other developement apps simultaneously, or Ubuntu and ...
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macOS Sierra: Configuring Subversion/SVN on Apache
Every Mac OSX/macOS update brings further challenges to get svn working after the update. Sierra's the latest.
I have a subversion repo in ~/svnRepo
I run some windows development stuff in a VM ...
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Retina performance much worse than non-retina in Windows on Parallels and VMWare
I have been using Windows (8 then 10) in Parallels on a Mac for years. It has always been very fast.
Over 3 MacBook Air 11" with (2 then 4Gb RAM). Over many versions of MacOS and 2 versions of ...
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Parallels vs VMWare for Mac
I use Parallels on my iMac and Macbook Pro. It seems to run fine on my iMac but kind of causes my MBP to become a little sluggish and fans to get pegged. I was speaking with someone that runs ...
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nginx config set up/ Local setup
I try to setup custom nginx config for site. Local setup. I use vmware virtual machine Mac OS X EL capitan 10.11. and use this tutorial
It's my nginx.conf
enter code here
#user nobody;
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How to lengthen VMware Fusion suspend feature
VMware Fusion suspends VMs very aggressively (Windows 10 in my case) in under 30 minutes.
I have found how to stop it suspending at all - but how can you lengthen that time to, say, 1 or 2 hours - ...
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Change tabs on Windows when using Fusion?
I was wondering if it is possible to switch tabs while in Windows using Fusion (i.e like how you would alt/tab in general on a Windows machine). So far it only switches back to the Mac side, so I was ...
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Fixing a 0xc0000225 error in VMware Fusion
A few days ago I had to force shut down my iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012) running 10.11.6 because it wouldn't wake up. VMware Fusion 6.0.6 was running.
Now when I start VMware Fusion I get in this ...
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How do i get full capacity from Fusion drive on vmWare ESXi 6.0 Mac Mini 7,1
I managed to install the free vmWare ESXi 6.0 hypervisor on a Mac Mini 7,1. It's running rather nicely from a USB memory.
The mini has a 2TB Fusion drive. My problem is that i can only get the 106 GB ...
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Implications of using a USB SSD drive to run VM images off
I'm running VMware Fusion on my Apple Macbook Pro (15 inch, Mid 2012, OSX 10.10.2), and have several VM images that are stored on an external USB3 disk (WD Passport).
The external disk is fine for ...
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Mac Pro (Desktop) missing NTFS SATA Drive in VMware Fusion Boot Camp
Background:
I have a Mac Pro early-2008 DESKTOP :) with 3 HDD installed:
1 SATA OSX journaled HDD
1 SATA SSD partitioned with my OSX and Bootcamp for Windows 10
1 SATA NTFS formatted drive for use ...
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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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Windows Remote Desktop Connection to Mac
I've Mac OS X (El Capitan) VMs in ESXi 6 on our local network that I can SSH into and I can VNC into and I can connect Xamarin Mac Agent to but I can't Remote Desktop Connection (Windows 10) into. Our ...
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Toggling between Fn and F keys per app [duplicate]
Is there a way to toggle between Fn (multimedia keys, brightness, etc) and F keys (F1, F2, ...) per app? I used to use an app that could perform this but now I just can't remember it's name.
As a ...
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I cannot mount .dmg file for VMWare Fusion: Protocol wrong type for socket ERROR
I cannot mount .dmg file for VMWare Fusion installer. I get the error: Protocol wrong type for socket .
I have Mac OSX 10.11.5 , which is newer than the officially supported versions of Mac for this ...
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Fusion installing Mavericks this item is temporary unavailable
I am new to Mac. I have a MacBook Air running 10.9.4.
I installed Fusion VMWare and I am trying to install a VM for 10.9.4 using the "Install OS X from the recovery partition. When I get to the ...
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Bootcamp/VM Windows 10 licensing
In the past if I wanted to install Windows on Bootcamp, and then also use Parallels/VMware to open up the Bootcamp installation as a VM I would need two separate Windows licenses. Is this still the ...
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Changing from Virtual Hard Drive to Blank External Hard Disk [closed]
I have a blank hard disk (1 TB) that has more space than the virtual disk I am running OS X El Capitan on (89 GB). My OS is running on VMWare Player version 12, being used on Windows 10 single ...
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Long term effect on Mac computer of installing Windows/Running a Windows VM
I need to install Windows on my MacBook Pro. Hardware limitations are not a problem for me. I am mostly concerned about the long term effects that running Windows might have on my Mac.
I am assuming ...
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How to set up identical/similar keybindings in a virtualized Windows 10 (VMware Fusion) and OS X?
I am new to Mac and now also new to the Windows 10 environment so on a huge learning curve. I have managed to set up Office via VMware Fusion virtual machine on my Mac.
I need to find out how I can ...
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Why download a Yosemite .dmg when I can create my own?
Having a Mac I wanted to know can't I just make my own .dmg file using AutoDMG? Instead of finding some random file on the Internet and hoping its not infected? Is there any other software that would ...
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There is about 60GB of space being used on my HD that I cannot find
Am I just bad at math? OmniDiskSweep isn't picking up what is using my space. I recently deleted a 60GB drive (not partition) that VMWare Fusion was using, and emptied the trash. Now it doesn't show ...
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Key combination not propagating to Fusion VM
I have a clean installation of El Capitan with VMware Fusion Pro 8 and Windows 10 Pro.
I use Fusion in full screen, and the windows keyboard command Control + Command+ D is used to create a new ...
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Leopard in VMWare Fusion
I have an essential PPC OS X app. I want to use Leopard (10.5) in a Virtual Machine (Fusion).
I have the ISO but when I attempt to install, it says that its not supported.
Any workaround to this?
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Keyboard Layout in Windows 7 with VMware Fusion 5
I'm using my MacBook Pro for programming. I have a virtual Windows 7 machine running with VMware Fusion. When I switch from OS X to Windows 7, my keyboard layout changes. It's really annoying because ...
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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 create an ISO from a file (not a directory)
I'm trying to perform some testing on old platforms. In this case, its Fedora 1 (circa 2002 or 2003). The VM software (VMware and VirtualBox) can't handle distros that old, so the guests don't have a ...
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How do I exit full screen in VMWare Fusion 7?
How do I exit full screen in VMWare Fusion 7?
The menu bar that used to appear when the cursor was oushed to the top of the screen no longer appears.
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Can I run a virtualized OS X operating system (bought on eBay) on my PC via VMware Player
I am considering running a virtualized OS X running system within my PC on VMware Player. I want to do this so that I can run Xcode.
Can I do this?
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Is it possible to copy paste between Mac OS and its virtual machine?
I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3, and I have installed VMware to run virtual machines: Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10.
I have also installed VM Tools.
I would like to know if it is possible allow copy ...
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Is VMware Fusion 5.0.5 compatible with OS X El Capitan?
I'm currently running OS X 10.9.5 on my MacBook Pro along with VMware Fusion 5.0.5. I want to upgrade to OS X EL Capitan. Will version 5.0.5 of VMware Fusion be compatible?
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Installing OS X Yosemite from compressed DMG file in VMware Fusion
I would like to install OS X Yosemite in VMware Fusion 7.0.
If I select the DMG file my university is providing, VMware is unable to boot from the DMG file.
The image is a compressed DMG.
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How to bind hostname with ip?
There are 2 VMs running on VMWare on a remote server. For instance: devops-01 and devops-02. Both of them have SSH access enabled.
To access to the first one I do: ssh dev@devops-01. For the other one:...
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Retina MacBook Pro - Quad core vs. Dual core and virtual machines (VMware Fusion)
I am looking to get a Retina MacBook Pro and I am really torn between the portability of the 13" dual core i7 and the four cores of the 15" quad core i7. The majority of my work will be done using a ...
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How do I remove the "Open With"context menu items caused by VMware Fusion?
I would like to clean up the massive amount of junk in my contextual menu. I have VM Fusion 5 installed and it is one of the main culprits, showing multiple entries of Windows Apps within my context ...
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Can Resorcerer work in Snow Leopard in VMWare Fusion 6?
Since Resorcerer (2.4.1) won't work at all in 10.7 and later, I tried it in a virtual machine running Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 in VMWare Fusion 6.0.6. But when I select a resource and click the Hex ...
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Access Windows Virtual Machine Localhost from Host Mac
I have a Windows 8.1 virtual machine (VMWare Fusion 6) running on my Mac (OSX 10.9.4). In windows, I am running a site using IIS Express on a specific port. On the windows vm, I can write localhost:...
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Share vmware network with other host and other computers
I have a USB NIC (Bear Extender) that does not work under Yosemite or El Cap. I have a VM running Mavericks that can use the NIC. How can I share the internet out of the VM so that my macbook pro ...
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How can I let two iTunes installation use same iTunes folder?
I have two iTunes installation on PC.
First one is on Windows 7 which is my main iTunes for music podcast etc.
Second iTunes is installed in a VMware powered Windows 7
I connected first iTunes ...
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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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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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How to pass keyboard hotkeys from VMWare Windows VM back to OSX host?
I'm running VMWare 5 on a MacBook Pro, and I'd like to be able to send certain combinations of keys out to OSX while working in my Windows VM. I've set up a couple Automator scripts that do Play/...
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Running 10.11 in VM Ware Fusion with 10.10 Host
I run 10.11 public beta in a VM with VMware Fusion 7.1.2 with my rMBP 2015. I have the problem that main part in Finder or the maps in Maps.app are blank. Sidebars and menus are all rendering fine. Is ...
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VMware Fusion 5 with Windows 8 64 bit on MacBook Air Constant High CPU usage
I have set up Windows 8 64 bit on a MacBook Air using VMWare Fusion 5 Professional.
The MacBook Air is from Oct 2012 and has an Intel Core i7 2GHz and 8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM.
I have Windows 8 ...
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VMware Fusion upgrade
What's VMWare Fusion upgrade policy? I consider buying it, but a new version will probably come out in September alongside OS X 10.11. Will I get a free upgrade, or do I wait until September?
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Install OS X inside a VMware ESXi server (hypervisor)
Say you have a apple hardware, that you installed a VMware ESXi server, is it legal and possible to install a Mac OS X on that hypervisor, and access it remotely, say with RDP or Logmein or whatever ...
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Visual Studios 2013 with VM on 12" mac1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M
I'm a non mac user. But I would like to buy the latest mac 12" 1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M. But I need Visual Studios 2013 the requirements are 1.6 GHz or faster processor.
Can this be install in VM ...
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Best config for day time Windows user + occasional Mac usage
I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro 15" retina, 16GB memory 1TB SSD. I use Visual studio on day time on windows 8 and work on Mac, open source technologies at night and on weekends. I first thought of using ...
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View ASP.NET website developed on a VM in safari on Mac
For school I need to make some assignments in ASP.NET on windows. I Have a MBPR with OS X 10.10 and Windows 8.1 (VMWare) running on it. When I run my project in visual studio, google chrome is opened ...
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