Setting VMware Fusion to confirm you want to close an active VM

I do a lot of work with virtual machines running in VMware’s Fusion hypervisor software. As part of that work, I’ll occasionally run into the following issue:

1. I’m running an application inside a VM.
2. I’m done with whatever it is and want to quit out.
3. The focus of my keyboard is not inside the VM
4. I click the Command (⌘) and Q keys to quit the application running inside the VM.
5. Instead of the application inside of the VM quitting, I see this.

6. Then I say something like this.

As part of this, I’ve often wished for some way for Fusion to warn me when I’m about to accidentally quit Fusion instead of quitting an application inside a VM. That led to me making the following observation on Twitter:

I just noticed that @googlechrome has a feature that @VMwareFusion really, really needs. pic.twitter.com/YmBsA9oU0m

— Rich Trouton (@rtrouton) September 8, 2016

I was quickly informed that Fusion in fact had exactly that.

@rtrouton @geekable “Confirm before closing” in VMware Fusion preferences. pic.twitter.com/PNpamD4Bzf

— Rosyna Keller (@rosyna) September 9, 2016

For more information, see below the jump.