Unity grayed out

[EMR]

I've just installed Beta 4. No problems. However, I wanted to try Unity, but it was grayed out. I am running 64-bit Vista. Just in case, I've also updated VMware Tools, but to no avail.

Is Unity only for 32-bit Windows?

[piebas]

At this moment Unity is only available for Windows XP

[EMR]

Fair enough. I'd simply like to add my voice to the chorus requesting that the following features be implemented by the time Fusion reaches GA status:

1. Full support of Windows Vista with Aero (i.e., DirectX 9 or higher). OpenGL would be a nice bonus.

2. Enhancing Unity with Coherence 2.0 features, such as using either Windows or Mac programs to open either Mac or Windows documents. Naturally, Unity should work on Vista.

3. Full-featured snapshots.

4. Windows printing to the default Mac OS X printer (without having to instal a specific printer driver on Windows (this is what VirtualPC used to do).

[chicagodan]

I'd like to add one more to the list -- an easy method to migrate Parallels-installed VMs to Fusion. Oh, and Unity in Vista.

[stschwar]

When running Windows 2000 the Unity feature is disabled as well. It would be great if Unity is supported for W2k guests.

[Pat_Lee]

Fair enough. I'd simply like to add my voice to the

chorus requesting that the following features be

implemented by the time Fusion reaches GA status:

1. Full support of Windows Vista with Aero (i.e.,

DirectX 9 or higher). OpenGL would be a nice bonus.

2. Enhancing Unity with Coherence 2.0 features, such

as using either Windows or Mac programs to open

either Mac or Windows documents. Naturally, Unity

should work on Vista.

3. Full-featured snapshots.

4. Windows printing to the default Mac OS X printer

(without having to instal a specific printer driver

on Windows (this is what VirtualPC used to do).

Thank you for your feature requests, we will definitely consider them for a future release of VMware Fusion.

Pat

[tromba]

I'm running XP from a Boot Camp partition, and Unity is also grayed out. Other than that beta 4 seems to work fine. Any suggestions?

[phurth]

I'm running XP from a Boot Camp partition, and Unity

is also grayed out. Other than that beta 4 seems to

work fine. Any suggestions?

I had the same problem and was able to solve it by deleting the virtual machine folder at ~/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion. After doing this the Boot Camp partition is detected by Fusion. Upon first launch VMWare Tools is reinstalled, the VM reboots, and Unity becomes available.

[admin]

Unity requires updated tools; deleting and recreating the Bootcamp VM will have that side effect. You may be able to skip that step and just update the tools.

[pixl8]

I'm running Windows XP 64 bit edition, I've upgraded the tools and it's still greyed out. Im not running boot camp do I need to ?

[vinayv]

Currently unity is supported on XP-32-bit only. We look forward to supporting this on other OS's as well

[MacPloeg]

I'm using XP Pro SP2 and Unity is greyed. I don't know if i'm using a 64bits Windows version or someting else (i'm not a windows-geek..).

[trellusg]

Have you installed the VMWare Tools from Beta 4? They are required for Unity support.

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f you have VMWare Tools already installed from an earlier beta, you will need to upgrade the VMWare Tools to the version that comes with Beta 4. You can do this from the VMWare menu "Virtual Machine" and select "Install VMWare Tools"... your VM will detect that it's installed and just needs to be upgraded.

Be \*sure* to take a snapshot of your VM before doing this, however, in case anything goes awry and you need to go back to the pre-Beta4 VMWare Tools.

[Swift2001]

I'm not sure you'll answer this, but here goes. I bought your competitor, but I've had problems with it recently that I can't fix. But now, applying the fix in this forum, the vm tools installed instantly, and Unity and Snapshot icons became usable. The release candidate works flawlessly with my boot camp partition. I am very impressed, and leaning in your direction now.

Is it possible that I can keep trying both out with the same partition? In other words, does VMWare install anything that makes \[unnamed competitor] unable to use the same partition? I'll try it out, of course, but perhaps there's some guidance you can give that would avoid a re-authorization or other annoyance.

[Andreas_Masur]

Is it possible that I can keep trying both out with

the same partition? In other words, does VMWare

install anything that makes \[unnamed competitor]

unable to use the same partition? I'll try it out, of

course, but perhaps there's some guidance you can

give that would avoid a re-authorization or other

annoyance.

You should be fine....there are many people here that use the same Boot Camp partition with both Parallels and VMware.

Having said this....there are some users that have reported some hiccups though. One of the problem can arise due to the way Parallels get the Boot Camp partition to work (exchanging system files etc.).

So...to summarize....there are some people without any problems and then there are some with problems. 😮

Ciao, Andreas