VMWare Fusion Tip: Use OSX Spaces for seamless switching
I just discovered a tip that’s made my VMWare fusion experience loads better.
I like using my XP/Vista VM in full screen mode, but it’s a pain using Apple-H to hide the machine to get back into OSX.
A better way is to use Spaces and allocate one space for VMWare fusion.
- Start your XP/Vista/Ubuntu virtual machine as usual
- Enable spaces in your System Preferences
- Also, allocate one space to your virtual machine in the dialog
- Setup a hot key for transitioning between spaces (Shit-Apple-Arrow is what I use).
It’s much nicer, and you get the beautiful slide transitions between spaces :)
Comments
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now i know what spaces are really good for =). its a lot of fun toggling between 2 spaces repeating “mac … windows … mac ….windows…” Sad part is that the beautiful function of drag & drop from or into vm doesn’t work anymore or am i wrong? using the shared folders isn’t just that “tasty”.
greetings from germany alex (i loves my mac, loves my mac)
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Yup, see my blog post here about that.
Basically, if you use Expose, you can:
- grab a file in OSX finder
- drag it to the corner of screen
- this brings Expose showing the various desktops
- drop file on your desired windows desktop
HTH!