Fusion Feature Requests Ideas

Few feature requests for the future version

Clemond — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:21:57 GMT

(1) Per-VM setting for mouse/game optimization - At this moment it is a single global setting

(2) Higher refresh rate - This is possible. Parallels' windows guest are running at 120hz refresh rate

(3) Not sure if this is already supported - Headless guest?

(4) More customizable vmnet settings. i.e. routing settings, DHCP options , etc.

Support Booting native (Asahi) Linux Installations on Apple Silicon

Rastafabisch — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 23:28:35 GMT

The title is pretty self explanatory. It would be very useful if it were possible to boot residing native Linux installations from within macOS, just like we used to have support for booting BOOTCAMP installs on Intel Macs.

I already tried to archive this, using the cli raw disk creator, but this did not work.

Configure VMs to prevent host from sleeping

amalthea — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 13:24:36 GMT

When VMs are performing a long-running activity, the Mac will still go to sleep when nothing is happening on the host. This obviously prevents progress of any activity within the VM. It can also crash VM guest OSes because the host CPU is being yanked away.

I would like to have a per-VM or global Fusion configuration option to prevent the Mac from sleeping as long as a VM is running. This enables activities in VMs to continue without activity on the host.

Return multiple monitor support

Technogeezer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:01:04 GMT

Prior versions of Fusion had support for multiple monitors on the host that could be configured to the guest. Please return this functionality as there are many Fusion users that have depended on this support and now find it gone after upgrades.

Parallels continues to maintain this feature on current macOS versions.