Easier way to start VM

[MSUDVM]

There must be an quicker way to start the VM. In Parallels, I just need to click on the dock icon an I am up and running. In Fusion, I first click on the dock icon, then I musty select the VM, and then click on run 3 steps! Is there a shortcut I am missing?

Dan

[bgertzfield]

You can double-click on the VM's icon in ~/Documents/Virtual Machines/.

You can drag your VM from that folder onto your dock for one-click access.

[MSUDVM]

You can drag your VM from that folder ( ~/Documents/Virtual Machines/) onto your dock for one-click access.

Thanks for your reply! When I try to drag the VM from the mentioned folder to the dock, it will not appear in the dock!? Another suggestion to make this work? I can drag it to the desktop, but it will not stay in the dock.

Dan

[admin]

Has to be on the right side of the separator (adjust advice as necessary if you've moved your Dock).

[vinayv]

The difference is that in Parallels they open up a single app for every VM they run. Fusion allows you to run multiple VMs in the same application. Think of it like "Word". If you click on Word, the document you want to open doesn't open automatically, you have to tell Word which document you want to edit.

As far as the mac is concerned, the VMs are just documents (documents that contain a config, a virtual disk, snapshot information, etc). So double clicking on a document, opens it up.

I hope that makes sense. Thanks for using Fusion.

[MSUDVM]

Thanks guys for the help! Good answers! Great support from the team here.

[Faceless_User]

How can you one click launch a bootcamp virtual machine?

[bgertzfield]

The Boot Camp VM is located in ~/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/ . You can drag that VM onto your Dock.

[aetm]

One way to launch Boot Camp with one click is to run XP or Vista in Fusion, launch an application that you will use and like to see on your dock (for instance Internet Explorer or whatever you want to see or need to launch first), and while that program is running, switch to Unity View. The icon of the application will be showing on your dock; right click / control click on that icon, and select "Keep in Dock".

After this you can shut down Windows and quit Fusion - the dock icon will show. When you click on the icon on the dock it will open Fusion with that application in Unity view.

[abackstrom]

Thanks for the tip. Works well with Quicksilver.

[aetm]

And a second way to get Boot Camp located Windows vm to start with one click :

drag the following file to your dock, again on right side of the divider, close to the trash icon.

(~ = your home folder, so Macintosh HD /users/username)

~/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/

navigate in that folder further so could be another folder called %2Fdev%2Fdisk0 or something similar, and within that folder there is the VM file, called Boot Camp partition[/b] or something similar. That is the file to be dragged to the dock.

Launched via this dock icon, Windows will start normally, not only one application in it. So this may be preferable one click shortcut for some users.