Combine an SSD & HDD to create a DIY Fusion Drive in OS X With Apple now supplying Fusion Drives in their current generation Mac Minis & iMacs we thought it was about time we let classic Mac Pro users know how to get in on the action.įusion Mac Osx No Returns is a Commercial software in the category Miscellaneous developed by Vmware - Media Product.
Version 7.7 includes breakthrough new features like an enhanced timeline, improved time-stretching and support for Mac OS X. Sometimes you can head off repeated calls with a bit of education and thinking ahead.Fusion MixMeister Fusion set the standard for combining live DJ performance with the pinpoint precision of the best music production software. If you run into the same support problems over and over, it’s not dumb users, it’s bad product design. Here’s a quick cheat sheet:Ĭommand+Shift+P: project to a connected screenĬommand+Shift+F: search everywhere or the open appĬommand+Shift+V: cycle through notificationsĬommand+Shift+X: right-click the Start buttonĬommand+Shift+Z: show or hide app options To see the list of keyboard shortcuts for your virtual machine, go to that machine’s settings, click Keyboard & Mouse, select the desired profile, click the gear dropdown, click Edit Profile…, and click Key Mappings.
You can also set Fusion to open full screen if your user can handle that. You can sort of emulate those gestures with a mouse by positioning the cursor juuuuuust at the edge of the screen, holding down the left button, and moving toward the center of the screen. Other gestures include switching apps (swipe from the left or Win+Tab) and showing app options (swipe from the bottom or Win+Z). That means to bring up the Charms bar with the keyboard requires pressing Command+Shift+C.
In the default, Windows 8 keyboard and mouse profile for Fusion, other shortcuts involving the Windows key will need to have the Shift key added as well. To be fair, Fusion automatically maps the Windows key function to the Macintosh’s Command key, but that only works by itself to bring up the Start menu. There’s a keyboard shortcut option, Win+C, but not a lot of Macs have a Windows key. Barring (hahaha) that, you can move your mouse to the top or bottom right corner of the screen – easy when the mouse cursor can’t move any farther on your monitor, not so much when it flies right past the edge of the window. The “Charms” bar, for instance, gets you into things like Windows Settings, so, you know, kind of a big deal. That’s because they’re hidden behind gestures that don’t quite work when your Windows machine is really a window on a Mac. It was designed with touchscreens in mind as in, “Everyone has touchscreens now!” This was a) obviously wrong, and b) not even true for most brand-new computers shipping with Windows 8 pre-installed.įor the unfortunate souls suffering with Windows 8 or 8.1 under VMware Fusion, some functions are almost impossible to access. Using Windows gesturesĬhances are, even a die-hard Microsoft fan’s operating system of choice isn’t Windows 8. If they really want to shut down the virtual machine, they can do that from the Start menu. It says, “You can suspend it for later use or power it off now,” but also offers “Cancel” and “Run in Background” options. You can give your users the confirm dialog box if you want, but it’s needlessly confusing. Under General, select Suspend the virtual machine Not that that’s a problem, since your user won’t have any other applications open at the same time, right? Plus, whatever virtual machine you run will cordon off memory and processor cores all for itself, making them unavailable for other tasks. Version 8 requires 4GB of RAM at a minimum, and we all know the system requirement for RAM is always a bare, bare minimum. Only, no, that doesn’t quit the whole program, it only closes that window.įusion is great, but it is not gentle on computer resources. Leaving VMwareFusion runningĮven experienced Mac users will make this mistake: click the red X to close a program. It’s best to take the button away altogether, by right-clicking that gray area, selecting Customize Toolbar... and dragging the button off.īeyond the confusion, you don’t want anyone forgetting that Fusion is running at all. Plus, if you hit that button when no Windows programs are running, the VM disappears and you have to click View > Single Window to get it back. That’s fine if you really want to switch between all your programs seamlessly, but in many cases, you want to remind your users that they’re in their Windows environment.
That button enters Fusion’s Unity mode, which strips away the Windows desktop and only shows the Windows applications that are running. VMware, however, can be blamed for the “Unity” button.