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Raised as a usability problem by 49 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 51 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Without graphics acceleration, macOS VM handles only very basic tasksUnreviewed
20092026- Without graphics acceleration, the macOS VM is unusable for anything beyond very basic tasks2018-05-15
- MacOS VM lacks 3D acceleration and vsync can't be disabled, so display looks ugly and Xcode view debugging fails2016-12-02
- Without OpenGL acceleration the macOS VM's graphical interface is nearly unusable2010-11-07
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Must create account and get stuck in authorization; updates require manual website navigation2025-09-08
- Can't download VMware Fusion because the site loops through redirects and stub pages2025-04-16
- API is opaque; edge cases easy in UI are very hard or impossible via SDK2025-03-24
- Hard to use and documentation is terrible for the person trying it2024-11-12
- Download page offers no visible way to create an account2024-05-14
- Account creation is nearly impossible and the verification step loops without proceeding2024-05-14
- GPU passthrough on non-Quadro cards was insanely difficult and poorly documented2023-12-29
- Shared files get corrupted when used with Git because of buggy cache settings2023-06-06
- Touchpad scrolling jumps several lines instead of smooth pixel-precise scrolling2022-11-15
- Full-screen requires manually resizing the VM window after every reboot2021-10-24
- Linux apps in the VM are hard to launch from the taskbar and not found by Windows search2021-04-11
- Managing servers by hand as 3D cubes is slow and clumsy for tasks that should be automated2021-01-01
- HTML5 client was limited, buggy and missing features in early versions2020-12-30
- Deeply object-oriented APIs make custom automation hard to implement in reasonable time2020-07-28
- Clipboard sharing between host and guest OSes is unreliable, forcing a manual workaround via a text file2020-04-25
- Trackpad is emulated as a scroll wheel, making everything janky2020-02-08
- File sharing between macOS host and Linux guest corrupts files and crashes Git2020-01-02
- Forced to browse through a clunky mandated browser app on personal device2019-06-11
- Without graphics acceleration, the macOS VM is unusable for anything beyond very basic tasks2018-05-15
- Little documentation; opaque return objects give no clue what to do with them2018-02-07
- HTML5 interface is incomplete, buggier and laggier than the Flash client2017-07-25
- VM cuts disk read speed and causes cursor lag and scrolling hiccups2016-12-20
- MacOS VM lacks 3D acceleration and vsync can't be disabled, so display looks ugly and Xcode view debugging fails2016-12-02
- Forces discrete GPU use, so VM breaks unless the laptop is plugged in2016-04-15
- Interacting with Fusion-run Windows VM feels laggy and sluggish2016-03-28
- VCenter is unusable because its interface depends on Flash2015-11-04
- API is illogical and painful to integrate with2015-10-12
- Clicks and typing lag so much inside the virtual machine that the user switched to dual booting2015-10-06
- Installing VMware drivers on non-Ubuntu systems is hard; must compile manually or lose functionality2015-08-29
- Guest VM drawing is very slow with dual monitors on Linux Mint2015-08-27
- Touchpad scrolling doesn't work and needs hacks; suspend and resume broken2015-07-12
- Cmd+Tab opens Ubuntu search menu, forcing user to press Esc before returning to work2015-06-24
- Must boot each new VM into BIOS to disable the unneeded floppy drive2015-05-13
- No way to find horizontal scrolling; vertical scrolling feels jarring2015-01-18
- Linux apps shown as windows inside Windows is hard to understand and use2014-01-07
- Took the commenter a while to find how to get guests to restart automatically2013-06-18
- Self-built VMs run much slower than pre-configured images, with no clear fix2013-01-23
- So slow on older MacBook it was practically unusable2012-09-04
- Long waits for VMs to boot and lag when a VM has been idle2012-01-08
- Virtual machine runs slowly and occasionally freezes for no reason2011-12-28
- Runs so slowly and lags so badly it is hard to use2011-09-14
- Form cannot be submitted on Android; user cannot scroll to the submit button2011-04-12
- Activation requires a third-party site, a broken page, and repeated rejected keys before it works2011-02-23
- Installer hangs and cuts network access; upgrade must go through an intermediate version2011-02-23
- Without OpenGL acceleration the macOS VM's graphical interface is nearly unusable2010-11-07
- After trial expired, menu bar icon can't be removed without uninstalling the app2010-10-04
- UI hangs and lags frequently during interaction2010-10-01
- Home-brew utilities with cryptic command line arguments produce bizarre error messages nobody can search for2010-09-17
- Code scrolling lags and WPF dialogs fail to draw until window is resized2010-02-13
- Virtual machine runs very slowly2009-10-28