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Select the defaults for application sharing between your Mac and the virtual machine.
You can enable more than one of these options at the same time.
Option Description
Open your Mac files and web links
by using Windows applications
You can use applications in your virtual machine to open files that reside
on your Mac. For example, you can open a Microsoft Word document
stored on your Mac in a Microsoft Office application in your virtual
machine.
Open your Windows files and web
links using Mac applications
You can use your Mac applications to open files in your virtual machines.
Run Windows applications from
your Mac's Applications folder
Find applications that you installed in Windows in your Mac's
Applications folder or using Spotlight. This option requires VMware Tools.
The virtual machine must be running to enable this option. This option is
not available on shared virtual machines.
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(Optional) Click Configure to assign the applications used to manage mail, Web pages, and so on. See
“Set Default Applications Preferences,” on page 37.
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(Optional) Click Restore Applications to restore the applications listed in your Mac Application folder
to only those that Windows does not include by default.
If you deleted any of the Windows applications not included by default from the Mac Application
folder, the deleted applications are restored.
If you added any applications that are included by default to your Mac's application folder, those
applications are deleted from the Mac Application folder.
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(Optional) Click Clean Up Applications to delete any Windows applications in the Mac Application
folder that are not being used by any of your virtual machines.
App Nap Support
Fusion 7.0 or later supports the App Nap feature, which places UI applications running in the background
in a reduced system resource state.
You do not have to disable App Nap for Fusion 7 or later.
Configuring Keyboard and Mouse Profiles
These profiles specify how Mac key combinations and mouse shortcuts are mapped to shortcuts on a virtual
machine, including key combinations for Windows 8 shortcuts.
With keyboard and mouse profiles, you can also specify whether keyboard shortcuts are sent to your Mac
instead of the virtual machine, and you can specify which Fusion-specific keyboard shortcuts to enable.
Although you can also create and edit keyboard and mouse profiles in Fusion preferences, you use virtual
machine settings to choose which profile to use for a particular virtual machine.
You can edit the default profiles provided by Fusion, or you can create additional profiles, either by adding
a new one or by duplicating and editing one of the existing profiles.
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Profile maps common Macintosh key combinations such as
+C and +X to their Windows and
Linux counterparts, such as Control+C and Control+X, respectively.
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Mac Profile has very few keyboard mappings. Most keystrokes are passed directly to the Mac OS X
guest.
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Windows 8 Profile has a set of key mappings specifically for Windows 8 features, such as pressing
Windows-C to open the Charms bar.
Using VMware Fusion
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