How to Launch Fusion in Unity Mode & 1 or 2 cores in settings

[hks22]

2 questions:

First, I have put the .vmwarevm file in my dock (to the right of the separator) so i can launch Fusion with one-click. However, it comes up in single window view and then I change it to Unity view. Is there a way for it to initially come up in Unity view instead of single window view?

I have a SR MacBook Pro with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo. In settings, the number of cores is set to 1, the default. Should I change that to 2?

Thanks.

[Andreas_Masur]

As far as I know, there is currently no way of starting a VM in Unity mode directly (yet).

As to the CPU cores....that kind of depends on the type of applications you are running. If they are more multi threaded (usually graphics applications are that way) then you could be gaining some performance by using 2 CPUs.

However, for the most part, it seems that a single CPU generates better overall performance with a variety of applications.

Ciao, Andreas

[hks22]

Thanks. I use Fusion to run Scientific Notebook (no OS X version) and Microsoft Office (better than the OS X version IMHO plus I need Access). Both run very fast, so I guess I'll stay with the single core for now.

[admin]

As far as I know, there is currently no way of

starting a VM in Unity mode directly (yet).

When running a VM in Unity, you'll get icons for its Windows applications in your OS X dock. We call these dock icons for Windows guest applications "dockers". If you take a docker and drag it elsewhere in the dock, or right-click it and say "Keep in dock", it'll stay in the dock even when Fusion isn't running (same as with any native OS X dock icon). Then, if you click the docker icon when Fusion isn't running, it'll start Fusion, and start your VM in Unity mode.

[vinayv]

As far as the 2 cores thing, you may need to re-install windows to get top performance out of it. Windows, when you install it, installs certain files depending on the hardware (sort of like whether a PPC or Intel version of OS X is installed when you install it). So it installs certain files that are optimized for single processor vs multi-processor machines.

I tried not to make that explanation too technical.

[hks22]

Wow! Keeping the icons in the dock was exactly what I was looking for. I put the icons for the 5 windows applications I use in the dock and clicked on keep in dock. Then I restarted my mac and clicked on a Windows application icon. In about 7 seconds Fusion was launched and the application was running in Unity. Clicking on another windows icon took about 1 second for it to be up and running in Unity.

I'll keep the suggestion about reinstalling Windows if I change to 2 cores. Right now the apps are running just fine.

Thanks for the great information.

[Andreas_Masur]

When running a VM in Unity, you'll get icons for its Windows applications in your OS X dock. We call these

dock icons for Windows guest applications "dockers". If you take a docker and drag it elsewhere in the

dock, or right-click it and say "Keep in dock", it'll stay in the dock even when Fusion isn't

running (same as with any native OS X dock icon). Then, if you click the docker icon when Fusion isn't

running, it'll start Fusion, and start your VM in Unity mode.

Hands down...perfect...actually kind of remember having read about keeping things in the dock before (do not really use Unity). Thanks for straighten me out Matt.

Ciao, Andreas