{"id":348,"date":"2008-03-08T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/vmware-fusion-wonderful\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T21:08:42","slug":"vmware-fusion-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/vmware-fusion-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare Fusion &#8211; wonderful!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion\/\">VMWare Fusion<\/a> on my MacBook Pro since I got it. Last week I finally got round to installing a Windows XP Professional virtual machine. The virtual machine runs beautifully and feels as though I&#8217;m running it natively such is it&#8217;s responsiveness. Almost as soon as I had the VM installed and running I immediately installed Windows Liver Writer lol. But then I noticed the Unity Icon, what this basically does is minimise the VM Window and allow you to run applications inside the VM directly on your Mac Desktop, here&#8217;s my desktop running Windows Liver Writer, Paint and a Windows Command Prompt (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7418252@N06\/2319574510\/sizes\/o\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2279\/2319574510_3e5955290b.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes this truly wonderful is that I can place windows applications directly into the dock in order to launch the applications. Here&#8217;s the neat bit, even if the VM isn&#8217;t running when I try to launch and app, Fusion starts up the VM and switches into Unity automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Superb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro since I got it. Last week I finally got round to installing a Windows XP Professional virtual machine. The virtual machine runs beautifully and feels as though I&#8217;m running it natively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/vmware-fusion-wonderful\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[412,295,294,393],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","tag-mac","tag-unity","tag-virtual_machine","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}