I do a lot of work with virtual machines running in VMware’s Fusion hypervisor software. As part of that work, I’ll occasionally run into the following issue:
1. I’m running an application inside a VM.
2. I’m done with whatever it is and want to quit out.
3. The focus of my keyboard is not inside the VM
4. I click the Command (⌘) and Q keys to quit the application running inside the VM.
5. Instead of the application inside of the VM quitting, I see this.
6. Then I say something like this.
As part of this, I’ve often wished for some way for Fusion to warn me when I’m about to accidentally quit Fusion instead of quitting an application inside a VM. That led to me making the following observation on Twitter:
I was quickly informed that Fusion in fact had exactly that.
For more information, see below the jump.
Setting VMware Fusion 8.x to confirm you want to close a VM:
1. Launch VMware Fusion
2. Under the VMware Fusion menu, select Preferences…
3. In the General tab, check the Confirm before closing checkbox.
4. Close the Preferences window
Once the Confirm before closing option has been selected, actively running Fusion VMs should now prompt you to confirm that you want to close the VM.
