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Energy status in the VM

ShaddamIV — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:20:20 GMT

Hello, thank you for this wonderful VM. I‘m running the Tech Preview on an M2 MBAir under Sonoma with Win11arm and it‘s a dream - super stable, super fast, just fantastic.

I set the VM to pass the energy status from Mac to VM. However, I see no energy options in the Windows control panel, and there is no battery indicator in the Windows task bar. It seems as if Windows (or the VM) is actually ignoring the energy information from the Mac. Is that so?

Have a great day, and - again - thank you very much,

Karl

Optimize Mouse for games PER APP

ShaddamIV — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:45:21 GMT

First, I love the 2023 Tech Preview. I'm running a Win-11-on-ARM VM on an MBAir (M2) and it's just awesome. Thanks!

Here's my suggestion: some games (or other apps) really want the mouse to be optimized for games. Others don't. It'd be cool to be able to determine for each (Windows) app whether the mouse should be optimized for games, or not optimized, or automatically set.
UI-wise, this could work as follows: Select the mouse settings from Fusion's "settings" menu. Where you have the pull-down "Games: [always optimize][never optimize][auto]", add a link or button "optimize per app" (or similar) - and a (scrollable) list of apps with their individual mouse setting.
This "mouse optimized apps" list is initially empty. When the user has clicked on that link, show a list of all apps installed on Windows, sorted alphabetically. The user selects an app. The app is added to the mouse optimized list, together with three radio buttons (per entry) "optimized", "not opimized" and "auto" (or similar; the "optimized" wording doesn't really feel right). Default is the general setting (e.g. "auto"). The user may now switch the optimization for that app by selecting another option.

Thank you very much and
Have a great day,
Karl

fusion 12.1.2 mouse driver

ShaddamIV — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 13:52:13 GMT

Hi, after I've updated to Fusion 12.1.2 and installed the corresponding VMWare tools, the mouse is not working properly in the game "Mass Effect" any more: It's way too fast (and the game's mouse settings are ignored), and occasionally locks up. So I reverted to the previous mouse driver via the windows "Mouse" control panel, and everything works as expected in Mass Effect. (That's the original Mass Effect 1 from, oh, 2007 I believe, running via Steam).

Please have a look at that latest iteration of your mouse driver, it would be great if the next version didn't inherit this behaviour. Thanks!

Have a great day, and thank you for a wonderful product that I've used a lot these years.

Kind regards, Karl

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:37:58 GMT

Yup. Spaces plist is the culprit (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist). After deleting it, and then rebooting, my Fusion VM auto-starts up again.

Wow.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:22:42 GMT

Grrr. The VM stopped auto starting yesterday. This is really bizarre. The only thing I can think of that made a difference is that I had removed the Dock and Spaces plists over the week-end, and yesterday actually set some preferences in Spaces - after which the VM stopped auto starting. This is bizarre. I'll delete the Dock and Spaces plists again, and see whether that makes any difference, and report here.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 13:02:41 GMT

My VM is now auto starting again. I have no clue why. I had repaired permissions according to WoodyZ's suggestion before, and now I've been repairing them after having started from the recovery partition. However, Disk Utility didn't tell me it had fixed permissions on any Fusion related files.

Ok, it's running again and I'm happy. But this being a digital machine, I would expect something to consistently work - or not. I'm not so sure about machines that change behavior without my having any clue as to why.

Thank you for all the support.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:37:28 GMT

Well, Fusion seems to *write* a plist file - at least, when I delete com.vmware.fusion.plist from the preferences folder (while Fusion is not running), and then I start Fusion, *and then the VM*, it creates a new plist file.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:01:37 GMT

Double-clicking the virtual machine's file itself (the .vmwarevm file) causes Fusion to start, and the VM to start with it.

I'm confused.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:57:21 GMT

the single quoting message means: Add a ' after the " (and before, before you close the quote).

do this "command" should be

do this "'command'".

but still no luck with getting my vm started automatically.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:30:25 GMT

Repairing prefs repaired may iBooks related permissions, but none related to VMWare. Oh well, I'll wait and see, it's not as if the VM wouldn't work - it just doesn't start up when I start VMWare. Perhaps a future fix...

Thank you!

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:25:18 GMT

Will do... I tried your terminal command using

defaults write com.vmware.fusion.plist powerOnAtStartup.cfg -array "/Users/Karl/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Work VM Fusion 4.vmwarevm/Windows 7 (external).vmx"

But I get this: Could not parse: /Users/Karl/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Work VM Fusion 4.vmwarevm/Windows 7 (external).vmx. Try single-quoting it.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:54:08 GMT

I have deleted the .plist file... to no avail. Still doesn't start up. Although the powerOnAtStartup.cfg array now (after quitting and restarting Fusion, which re-created the .plist file, contains an item, namely, my VM (this is a Fusion 6 VM, despite the name).

Odd.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:40:09 GMT

WoodyZ,

thank you again. I'm using PrefSetter to edit my prefs. Interestingly, the array seems empty:

Should I perhaps delete the plist file? Or do you perhaps know what should be in it?

Cheers,

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:49:11 GMT

Thank you for responding. Yes, I have (several times), with the VM running, and with it stopped. Restarted the VM. Restarted Fusion. Set it, unset it, set it, etc in between restarts. No luck. Looking at the VMX file, I can't find out what might be the toggle... which is why I was thinking that maybe it got lost at some point.

Re: Fusion 6 - Auto start virtual machine broken again? WTF?

ShaddamIV — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:28:01 GMT

I'm on 6.0.2 and my Win7 64 doesn't autostart. It used to. Perhaps there's a line in the VMX file that got deleted...? Help please.

Cheers,

Re: Vmware is given only 20 MB in Mac osx and is super slow

ShaddamIV — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:42:24 GMT

The Fusion application is more or less the "shell" for the various VM processes. If you go to the Energy tab, and open (click on triangle) the Fusion entry, you'll see some of the other guys.

You're also running the VM with 2 GB on a 4 GB Mac, that might be a little hard on the Mac if it's got a hard disk and no SSD, in particular as you have other apps open (Skype, Spotify, Mail, Safari etc).

You may also want to update to Fusion 6.0.2 (if not already done) and see whether that helps.

Good luck!

IDE, SCSI, and SATA disks

ShaddamIV — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:05:05 GMT

Hello,

Fusion 6 now has the option to use SATA disks. I have a Windows 7 VM that uses a (virtual) IDE disk as it's main (and only) disk. Are there any advantages to using a SATA or an SCSI disk over the IDE disk? If so, what do I need to do to change my IDE disk to an SCSI or SATA disk? Or is it not worth the trouble?

Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Re: Memory requirements / tips for VMware Fusion 6 on Mavericks?

ShaddamIV — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:31:04 GMT

6.0.3 works fine and the previous issues with memory requirements on this mid 2011 MBAir have gone. Suspending the VM and quitting Fusion is a lot faster than before. Not yet sure about "re-animating" the VM. Thank you!

Re: Memory requirements / tips for VMware Fusion 6 on Mavericks?

ShaddamIV — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:20:12 GMT

Yay! thanks!

Re: Memory requirements / tips for VMware Fusion 6 on Mavericks?

ShaddamIV — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:15:04 GMT

... and? Where is the downloadable?