topic Re: Hide unused Virtual Machine? in VMware Fusion Discussions

Hide unused Virtual Machine?

vnovelty — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:47:32 GMT

Hi, all. Very frustrated. I mostly use Windows 7, but also sometimes Windows 10, as virtual machines. But a blank window for "Windows 10" always appears, and is often the first ordered desktop. This means I have to gesture past the blank screen repeatedly. Also, the order of windows never stays the same. Two questions: (i) Surely there must be a way to simply Hide a virtual machine, without uninstalling it/removing it from the library, to avoid always having a blank screen for every virtual machine I'm not currently running; and (ii) Surely there must be a way to fix the order of virtual machine windows, i.e. the order of Mac OS desktops. Thanks in advance.

Re: Hide unused Virtual Machine?

Technogeezer — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:28:10 GMT

I’m assuming that your “blank window” is the console window of your shut down Windows 10 VM, and not the Virtual Machine library that lists all your VMs in its left hand sidebar.

If that’s so, have you tried closing the inactive Windows 10 console window? It should not open next time you start Fusion and will open by itself next time you start the VM.

Re: Hide unused Virtual Machine?

ColoradoMarmot — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:27:24 GMT

Sounds like you've got a VM set to auto-launch when you launch fusion.