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Old Sep 2, 2010 | 7:48 pm
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duncf
 
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Originally Posted by KVS
Sounds like you need to make the Windows TEMP directory a Host/Guest Shared Folder & set-up an association for .HTM files, as described at http://Communities.VMWare.com/thread/166177
Awesome, thanks for the hint! I definitely searched around for a while, but I was always thinking about the default browser instead of the default action for opening HTM files.

I don't want to set all temp files to go to the host operating system, so I did the following:

* Using the Sharing Tab in the Virtual Machine settings, I created a new shared folder (called "VMWare Temp"). It lives somewhere on my Mac filesystem, and shows up in Windows as Z:\VMWare Temp

* Created a file "KVS.bat" that lives somewhere on my C:\ drive in the windows VM. It contains the following:

Code:
set TMP=Z:\VMWare Temp\
set TEMP=Z:\VMWare Temp\
cd "C:\Program Files\KVS Availability Tool"
KVS_AvailabilityTool.exe
* Set the default application for opening HTM files to be "Default Host Application".

* Added KVS.bat to my start menu. Made the name pretty and made it use the pretty KVS Tool icon.

* Instead of starting up the KVS tool directly, I use the KVS.bat I made, and it automatically opens URLs on my Mac where I want them.

This makes KVS way more usable with VMWare Fusion, especially in Unity mode.

Last edited by duncf; Sep 2, 2010 at 8:00 pm Reason: add more details
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