VMware Communities: Message List - VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

etung — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:30:30 GMT

My guess is that MSN Messenger is trying to be smart (and failing). If you're using a fullscreen app, you don't want to be bothered by popups, so it listens for apps going fullscreen and changes the status to busy - except it's not checking the current status. Given that it also happens with QuickTime, I highly doubt it's our bug.

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

HuiLi — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:16:36 GMT

The trigger is switching to fullscreen. I now realized that this is not unique to VMWare, but also happens when Quicktime goes fullscreen. In fact, I asked a friend to test this on a Windows OS and it also happens. I guess maybe I should complain to MSN messenger ......

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

etung — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:17:57 GMT

To clarify, is the trigger starting a virtual machine or switching a virtual machine to fullscreen? If it's switching to fullscreen, do other fullscreen apps (e.g. QuickTime, DVD Player) trigger this?

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

HuiLi — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:10:54 GMT

MacOSX 10.5.4, MSN for Mac 7.0.0 (080409), and VMWare Fusion both v1.1.3 (trial version) and 2.0b2.

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

etung — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:18:11 GMT

What version of Fusion and MSN Messenger is this? What version of OS X?

VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

HuiLi — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:48:29 GMT

Whenever a VM guest goes full screen, the MSN messenger's status will be changed to "Busy". This could be nice if MSN's original status was Online, but potentially disastrous when it was "Appear Offline". I mean, when I'm hiding from everyone in my contact list, I certainly would want to stay that way no matter what I'm doing, including starting a VM. Is anybody else also annoyed by this? Hopefully this would change in future releases.