You can work with virtual machines in the same way that you can work with physical machines. Your Mac and virtual machines can also interact.

You can start up, shut down, suspend, pause, resume, restart, and reset your virtual machines. You can send power commands to either the guest operating system or the virtual machine.

When a virtual machine is running in Unity view, you do not see the guest operating system's desktop, but you can open an application without it.

You can open a Windows application from either of the applications menus, the applications menu (Applications menu icon available in the Mac menu bar.), accessible in the Mac menu bar or with a keyboard shortcut, and the Unity applications menu (The Unity applications menu icon.), accessible from the Mac Dock when the virtual machine is in Unity view.

With Fusion, you can move and share files between a virtual machine and your Mac.

In the Applications panel of the virtual machine Settings window, you can set up Fusion so that your Mac can open applications in a virtual machine or so that a virtual machine can open applications on your Mac, or both.

You can place an icon tile for a Windows application in your Mac Dock. You can open the application in the same way that you open your Mac applications. You can access your virtual machine's applications without having to use the VMware Fusion menu bar or the guest operating system interface.

You can operate multiple virtual machines at the same time, and can switch between them easily.

To use Mac keyboards, mice, and trackpads in a virtual machine, you sometimes must change settings and use key combinations as equivalents to PC commands.

You can set the virtual machine to grab mouse and keyboard input. When input is grabbed, the mouse pointer is confined to the virtual machine window, and all keyboard and mouse input is directed to the virtual machine.