Creating a Shared
Virtual Machine in
Fusion
Fusion
You can create a
shared virtual machine in
Fusion
that can
be accessed by all users on the local Mac host.
Unless you specify a file
location for a virtual machine when you create it,
folder. See
Default File Location of a Virtual Machine.
Fusion
saves
the virtual machine package to a default location, such as the
your home
directory
/Virtual Machines This folder has limited
permissions that allow only the creator of the virtual machine to use it. To
allow other users on the Mac host to access the virtual machine, save it to the
/Users/Shared
folder
on the Mac.
With a shared virtual machine,
the user can log out of the current account on the Mac host, and another user
on the Mac host can log in to access the virtual machine.
The
Run Windows
applications from your Mac's Applications folder
option is not
available on shared virtual machines.
Shared
virtual machines in
Fusion
work
differently than shared virtual machines in
Workstation Pro
. In
Workstation Pro
, a shared virtual machine is a virtual machine on the host
system that remote
Workstation Pro
users can access as a remote virtual machine. In
Fusion
, shared
virtual machines can be accessed only on the local Mac host.