Configuring Keyboard
and Mouse Profiles
These profiles
specify how Mac key combinations and mouse shortcuts are mapped to shortcuts on
a virtual machine, including key combinations for Windows 8 shortcuts.
With keyboard and mouse
profiles, you can also specify whether keyboard shortcuts are sent to your Mac
instead of the virtual machine, and you can specify which
Fusion
-specific
keyboard shortcuts to enable.
Although you can also create
and edit keyboard and mouse profiles in
Fusion
preferences, you use virtual machine settings to select which profile to use
for a particular virtual machine.
You can edit the default
profiles provided by
Fusion
, or you
can create additional profiles, either by adding a new one or by duplicating
and editing one of the existing profiles.
- Profilemaps common Macintosh key combinations such as
+C and
+X to their Windows and Linux counterparts, such as Control+C
and Control+X, respectively.
- Mac Profilehas very few keyboard mappings. Most keystrokes are passed directly to the macOS guest.
- Windows 8 Profilehas a set of key mappings specifically for Windows 8 features, such as pressing Windows-C to open the Charms bar.Fusionincludes a Windows 8 specific profile because many keyboard shortcuts specific to Windows 8 include the Windows key, which normally maps to the key on macOS. Unfortunately, many of these
key combinations are also used for system hot keys in macOS.
To avoid conflicts, the Windows 8 profile allows you to use the key combination
+shift to map to the Windows key in Windows 8. You can,
however, configure a different key combination.