Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: Fusion
Shortcut key for CTRL-ALT-DEL on a Mac for a Fusion VM
Posted by on April 19, 2011
Apologies if this is old-hat or obvious but I didn’t realize you could do this until recently – if you have a Windows VM and want to press CTRL-ALT-DEL to logon or bring up the lock screen etc. there isn’t an obvious shortcut key as the Mac doesn’t have a physical DEL key like a [...]
Using an Apple Remote Control to drive PowerPoint in a Windows VM using Fusion
Posted by on March 1, 2011
I recently purchased a remote control for my MacBook Pro so that I could use it to control presentations without having to be at the keyboard, rather than opt for anything flashy I just assumed I could use the normal Apple Infra-red Remote Control, install the Bootcamp drivers to my Win7 VM and use it [...]
Cannot Access Shared Folder vmware-host Shared Folders My Desktop
Posted by on February 8, 2011
I encountered this error when a Windows 7 VM running under Fusion logs on, VM tools is mapping a drive to your OS X home directory and results in the following Windows error message Cannot Access Shared Folder \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\My Desktop I hit this error after I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my [...]
High CPU utilization with Windows XP SP3 guest under VMware Fusion
Posted by on April 23, 2009
I have had a curious problem recently, I am currently running Windows XP under Fusion on a MacBook Pro; since I did some software updates recently the fan was going crazy and running at up to 6000 RPM even when apparently idling not only was the noise annoying it seemed to eat battery power. [...]
