Category Archives: Virtualization

VMware Fusion 2.0 and CVSNT

Thursday, September 18, 2008

VMware recently released Fusion 2.0, its Mac virtualization product with an extremely annoying incompatibility–it won’t work properly with Windows guest systems running CVSNT, the CVS client installed with TortoiseCVS. As the release notes say: CVSNT and VMware Tools are incompatible. There is a known incompatibility between CVSNT (…) and VMware Tools. You should uninstall CVSNT [...]

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Using Mac VPN Clients with Virtual Machines

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

If you use Parallels or VMware Fusion and a Mac VPN client such as VPN Tracker, you can share your VPN connection between the host Mac and the guest PC by setting the network adaptor to share the host’s Internet connection via NAT. This connection method also has other advantages, as the VMware Fusion Release [...]

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CTRL-clicking in VMware Fusion

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

If you use the Enable Mac OS keyboard shortcuts option in VMware Fusion, Mac keyboard commands are passed on to the VM, which is useful if your Mac-schooled muscle memory has you pressing Apple+S every time you breathe. The Enable Mac OS mouse shortcuts also affects the CTRL key, which is used in Windows for [...]

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