Appendix B. Fusion for Propellerheads

Fusion was designed to be easy for ordinary folks to use, without requiring any technical expertise. Because this book is geared toward a general audience, I've steered clear of the geekier features that would appeal mainly to system administrators, IT personnel, and those of a more technical bent who just like to fiddle. Nevertheless, if you are such a person, Fusion 2 contains a great many obscure but delightful capabilities you may want to explore.

In this appendix, I discuss mounting virtual disks in the Finder (when Fusion isn't running) and installing Mac OS X Server as a guest operating system. I also provide a brief overview of Fusion's command-line tool, vmrun, which lets you perform (and even script) nearly any Fusion action without touching the graphical user interface. Finally, I talk about Virtual Appliances.