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Yaztromo
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‎10-26-2007 02:04 PM

Fusion + Spaces = Wow :)

Hi Everyone:

Leopard showed up at my door nice and early (thank-you Apple for automatically upgrading my free shipping from ground to air!), and I've been busy playing with it. I'll keep my non-VMware comments for elsewhere (but in short, the only significant problem I've encountered thus far is not being able to connect to my (non-VM) Debian AFP share), but my experience so far with Fusion 1.1b on Leopard has been really positive.

One cool effect I wasn't expecting to work is Spaces with full-screen VMs. On my MacBook, I currently have 4 spaces defined, one of which is running full-screen 64-bit Ubuntu 7.10, while another is running full-screen Windows Vista 64-bit Business Edition. Using Ctrl-Arrow allows me to quickly switch between the two ful-screen VMs and two OS X desktops. Pressing F8 allows me to see what is going on in the Vista and Ubuntu and my two OS X desktops simultaneously and in real time. Very, very sweet :).

I haven't played with Unity mode or dock integration, as to be honest I've never been interested in this. IMO being able to run a VM full-screen in its own space is more interesting (although admittedly I don't have any Windows apps I generally need to run, so the Windows VM is almost never active, except for experimentation and testing now and then).

Yaz.

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BP9906
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‎10-26-2007 02:09 PM

Thats pretty sweet. I agree w/ you about Unity, the integration isnt quite there, but full screen is perfectly fine to me (especially now since I can lock the mouse inside).

Yaztromo - care to post a screenshot of the 4 Spaces view? I'm not sure if Grab can do it or if you'll have to use your digital camera Smiley Happy

I think everyone here would get a kick out of it.

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bflad
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‎10-26-2007 02:10 PM

Thanks for the feedback! I'll be playing with Leopard once I get my paws on it tonight. Smiley Happy

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Yaztromo
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‎10-26-2007 02:18 PM

Done and done :). FWIW, the Timed Screen Capture in Grab works just great for grabbing the Spaces overview.

(I almost threw in another VM into one of the OS X spaces, but decided to leave it as described previously Smiley Wink ).

Yaz.

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kmstrs
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‎10-26-2007 06:08 PM

Hmm Fusion + spaces totally hoses up my computer.

I am using Fusion 1.1b1 (57919) on my Mac Pro, and I cannot get full screen working with spaces - it works until I switch to a different space, then the screen stops updating, both the Fusion window and the OSX windows. Fusion seems to work fine with spaces if I stay out of full screen mode.

The computer still seems to be running, but the screen is frozen - no menus, window updates, etc. The only way to get control back that I can find is to cycle the power. Force quitting apps does no good.

Maybe it is an issue with the Mac Pro graphics card/driver (ATI x1900?

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kmstrs
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‎10-26-2007 06:44 PM

Problem solved. The issue was that I was not using the latest version of Fusion. I did not know that the 1.1RC build was available. After installing the RC build, I have no problems with Spaces + Fusion.

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EmmEff
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‎10-27-2007 11:10 AM

I am finding that if I run a VM full-screen in one Spaces pane, and then switch to another Spaces pane using the keyboard, the VM is flipped back to windowed mode.

Anybody else seeing this? Any workaround?

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bgertzfield
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‎10-27-2007 11:19 AM 

I am finding that if I run a VM full-screen in one Spaces pane, and then switch to another Spaces pane using the keyboard, the VM is flipped back to windowed mode.
Anybody else seeing this?  Any workaround?
VMware Fusion 1.1 Release Candidate resolves this issue.
http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/
Good luck!
Ben

					
				
			
			
				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
		

		
		
	

	
	


	
				
		
			
		
			
		
			
					
			
		
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
	
	


		

	

		

			

	
		
			
					
				
		
			
					
						
		

	
			
		


	
					
				
		
			
					
		
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