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- Getting Started with VMware Fusion
- Contents
- Getting Started with VMware Fusion
- About VMware Fusion
- VMware Fusion Capabilities
- System Requirements for VMware Fusion
- Install VMware Fusion
- Upgrading VMware Fusion
- Start VMware Fusion
- Getting Up and Running
- Supported Guest Operating Systems
- Using Mac Keyboards in a Virtual Machine
- Suspend and Resume a Virtual Machine
- Take Advantage of VMware Fusion Online Resources
- Index
2 In the Virtual Machine Library window, click the Boot Camp thumbnail in the list of virtual machines,
which identifies the partition that VMware Fusion detected.
3 (Optional) Enter your Mac password to access the Boot Camp partition.
VMware Fusion creates a virtual machine that uses your Boot Camp partition and starts Windows.
4 Follow the onscreen instructions and restart your virtual machine when prompted.
After Windows boots from your Boot Camp virtual machine, VMware Fusion starts the installation of
VMware Tools. VMware Tools enables full virtual machine functionality and optimizes performance
for your Boot Camp partition when you use the partition as a virtual machine.
5 When the VMware Tools installation is complete, reboot your computer.
What to do next
The first time you power on your Boot Camp virtual machine after you install VMware Tools, you must
reactivate Windows.
Import a Parallels or Virtual PC Virtual Machine
You can import existing third-party virtual machines and run them in VMware Fusion.
Procedure
1 Select Window > Virtual Machine Library.
2 Click Add > Import.
3 Browse to the existing virtual machine you want to import and click Open.
4 Type the name for the imported virtual machine in the Save As field and indicate where to save it.
The default destination is the Virtual Machines folder created by VMware Fusion.
VMware Fusion displays the disk space needed for the import, and the space available on the current
disk.
5 Click Import.
When the import is complete, you see the virtual machine added to the virtual machine list, in the
powered-off state.
6 Click Start Up.
VMware Fusion installs VMware Tools after the virtual machine powers on, and reboots the system
after the Tools installation is complete.
You have a separate VMware Fusion version of the third-party virtual machine.
Supported Guest Operating Systems
VMware Fusion supports over 60 guest operating systems, including Windows 3.1 through Windows 7,
Mac OS X Server, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD.
For the most recent list of guest operating systems that VMware products support, see the VMware
Compatibility Guide site: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.
For instructions about how to install the most common guest operating systems, see the VMware Guest
Operating System Installation Guide: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html.
Getting Started with VMware Fusion
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