Question for all of you all...
In WMWare Fusion on my work MacBook, I am required to hit Control-Command to exit my VMs, however I don't have this issue when using WMware Workstation on my Windows system at home. Is there a way I can turn this off in Fusion as well?
Thanks!
Hi,
Ok.
There's not a lot of info for me to go on right now (no guest OS, Fusion version, host OS version etc...), but one thing that changes this behavior is if you have made a change in VMware Fusion's configuration.
Under menu -> Preferences -> General tab -> Gaming:
The default is "Auto detect mouse for Games". If you have changed that to "Always optimize mouse ..." then you'll have to press those shortcut keys to leave the guest OS.
Other things to pay attention to are:
- the Guest OS has to be set to the correct OS (+ OS version) as it is what VMware Tools depends on for what installer to present to your VM
- that you reboot the guest OS inbetween uninstall and re-install of VMware Tools
If none of the above helps then you could try re-installing VMware Fusion itself.
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Wil
Hi,
Sounds like VMware Tools, in the guest OS, is not installed or not working properly.
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Wil
You would think. I've tried reinstalling a number of times. Interestingly enough when I move the VM back to a Windows host and run under Workstation, the behavior is as expected.
Hi,
Ok.
There's not a lot of info for me to go on right now (no guest OS, Fusion version, host OS version etc...), but one thing that changes this behavior is if you have made a change in VMware Fusion's configuration.
Under menu -> Preferences -> General tab -> Gaming:
The default is "Auto detect mouse for Games". If you have changed that to "Always optimize mouse ..." then you'll have to press those shortcut keys to leave the guest OS.
Other things to pay attention to are:
- the Guest OS has to be set to the correct OS (+ OS version) as it is what VMware Tools depends on for what installer to present to your VM
- that you reboot the guest OS inbetween uninstall and re-install of VMware Tools
If none of the above helps then you could try re-installing VMware Fusion itself.
--
Wil
Very good points, I will look into that, but I am using Fustion 11.5.3 running on a 2019 MacBook with an i7 and 32 GB or ram on Mojave.
The guest is windows server 2008R2
And yes, that option might have been touched.
Thanks