Last week VMware released Fusion update 1.1.2 with some exciting enhancements. It includes updates for the MacBook Air that address some compatibility issues that existed in the previous version. In addition, it contains a fix that adds Time Machine support to backup your VM’s in conjunction with the OS X 10.5.2 update. VMware has also added Simplified Chinese support and Windows XP SP3 support.
Here are some other not-quite-as-significant fixes in this version:
- Properly disconnect USB devices left connected to the virtual machine at shut down, making the USB devices available again to the Mac.
- Addresses problem with wireless bridged networking in some cases not being able to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server.
- Fixes a sound problem where only the default speaker worked in some cases.
- Pressing the newly-introduced keys on the new slim Apple Aluminum Keyboard caused VMware Fusion to crash in certain circumstances. This has now been fixed.
- VMware Fusion’s keyboard shortcuts to remap common Windows commands to Mac keyboard equivalents could not be disabled previously in Full Screen or Single Window views
- In some cases, VMware Fusion, after being upgraded to Version 1.1.1, would fail with a Signal 10 error when the user tried to use the keyboard. This problem has been fixed.
Get the complete update and download the update: http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2008/04/vmware-fusion-1.html
The only issues I’ve noticed were with the USB devices. I’m glad this and all the other issues were cleared up!
I have just upgraded from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 but noticed that the @ key and ” key have swapped round so that they are now in PC configuration rather than Mac - very annoying and I can’t seem to fix it. Any ideas?
Could you expand on that? Because neither of those keys are in a different location on a PC vs a Mac.
Hi Todd,
Just looked at my PC keyboard (Microsoft one about 4 years old) and ” is on shift 2 and @ is two to the right of L - i.e. the opposite way round to a Mac and this is the way Fusion now sees them. Interestingly, I used to use Parallels before switching to Fusion and that used to annoy me by doing the same thing, but on Fusion right up to 1.1.1 it was fine and recognised the keys as laid out on my Mac keyboard.
Just an afterthought… I’m in the UK - are keyboard layouts different on US versions?
It seems they are different in the US… which would help with the confusion. Have you tried changing the keyboard layout in the guest OS to the UK layout?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY
Found out from another discussion thread that I needed to install Boot Camp drivers to make the UK (Apple) Keyboard available to Windows - all working fine now, thanks.
Glad to hear it. Thanks for passing on the solution!