Since Beta 3, I have really found Fusion to be a great way to try out a bunch of OSes inside OS X without partitioning. However, one thing is really driving me NUTS - VMware Fusion's handling of fullscreen virtual machines.
For one thing, if a VM is fullscreen and you either 1) put the system into suspend or 2) switch away from and hide the VM ("Hide VMware Fusion" in the application menu), Fusion switches from fullscreen to windowed mode for no real reason whatsoever. What really bugs me is that Parallels - though it gets a whole lot wrong - manages to get this right, as it is quite easy to one-keystroke switch between VMs.
Additionally, when running fullscreen there is no way - short of removing VMware Tools and losing all of the features it provides - to prevent the VMware Fusion menu bar from appearing. This is not a big deal in Windows, but is in Ubuntu Linux, as applications are launched from a menu bar *at the very top of the screen*. The only suggestions I've received are to move/enlarge the menu bar, which is hardly a fix - in fact, that means I have less screen real estate to work with...
Finally - though this is a common complaint - whenever I start a VM, I'm stuck with Windowed mode as the default, and there is no way to make it Fullscreen or Unity. Parallels can do this, so I don't see why Fusion can't.
While these are all minor issues, the combination of them has made using Fusion much more frustrating than it could be. In Fusion, I find myself constantly having to press the "Fullscreen" button and move my mouse to avoid the Fusion menu bar. It almost has the feeling that the software wants to enforce *it's* preferred settings (windowed mode, Fusion controls always accessible) on me.
For one thing, if a VM is fullscreen and you either 1) put the system into suspend or 2) switch away from and hide the VM ("Hide VMware Fusion" in the application menu), Fusion switches from fullscreen to windowed mode for no real reason whatsoever. What really bugs me is that Parallels - though it gets a whole lot wrong - manages to get this right, as it is quite easy to one-keystroke switch between VMs.
Additionally, when running fullscreen there is no way - short of removing VMware Tools and losing all of the features it provides - to prevent the VMware Fusion menu bar from appearing. This is not a big deal in Windows, but is in Ubuntu Linux, as applications are launched from a menu bar *at the very top of the screen*. The only suggestions I've received are to move/enlarge the menu bar, which is hardly a fix - in fact, that means I have less screen real estate to work with...
Finally - though this is a common complaint - whenever I start a VM, I'm stuck with Windowed mode as the default, and there is no way to make it Fullscreen or Unity. Parallels can do this, so I don't see why Fusion can't.
While these are all minor issues, the combination of them has made using Fusion much more frustrating than it could be. In Fusion, I find myself constantly having to press the "Fullscreen" button and move my mouse to avoid the Fusion menu bar. It almost has the feeling that the software wants to enforce *it's* preferred settings (windowed mode, Fusion controls always accessible) on me.
