8.1

Revision Description
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Added “Creating a Shared Virtual Machine in Fusion,”
on page 50.
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Updated “Create a Virtual Machine for Any Supported
Operating System,” on page 52 to add saving the
virtual machine to a shared folder.
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Corrected “Upload a Virtual Machine to a Remote
Server,” on page 55 to remove the reference to
Workstation Pro. Fusion does not support uploading a
virtual machine to a server running Workstation Pro.
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Corrected “Upload a Virtual Machine to VMware
vCloud Air,” on page 55 to remove a note stating that
only Windows virtual machines can be uploaded to
VMware vCloud Air.
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Corrected “Download a Virtual Machine from a
Remote Server,” on page 56 to remove the reference
to Workstation Pro. Fusion does not support
downloading a virtual machine from a remote server
running Workstation Pro.
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Added “Export a Virtual Machine to OVF Format,” on
page 63.
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Updated “Clone a Virtual Machine,” on page 70 by
removing a statement that you cannot create full or
linked clones from single virtual machine access mode.
Single virtual machine access mode was deprecated in
a previous release.
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Added “Power on a Virtual Machine to Firmware in
Fusion Pro,” on page 76 for the option supported in
Fusion 8.1.
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Updated “Open a Windows Application While You
Are In Unity View,” on page 81 to remove references
to Linux applications. Beginning with Fusion 8.0, Unity
View on Linux is no longer supported.
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Updated “Guest Operating Systems That Support
Shared Folders,” on page 87 to remove deprecated
guest operating systems.
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Updated “Add a Shared Folder,” on page 89 to add
the Open in Guest option supported in Fusion 8.1.
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Updated “Delete a Snapshot,” on page 92 to add a
statement that you cannot delete an active snapshot.
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Added a statement to “Enable Default Applications,”
on page 101 that the Run Windows applications from
your Mac's Applications folder option is not available
for shared virtual machines.
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Added “Configuring Display Resolution Settings,” on
page 104 for virtual machine settings.
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Updated “Enable Accelerated 3D Graphics,”
on page 104 to add the Battery life option and the
shared graphics memory option.
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Updated “Enable Retina Display Support,”
on page 105 to add the Automatically adjust user
interface size in the virtual machinecheck box and
make other corrections.
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Updated “Clean Up a Virtual Machine,” on page 115
to add information on how cleaning up a hard disk
cleans up unconsolidated snapshot files.
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