Play a retro video game in VMware Fusion 3

Dec 17, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: robg

If you're using VMware Fusion 3, here's a little Easter Egg. Launch the app, then hold down Shift-Control-Command-Option and press V. This will create a new virtual machine named Paschal Ovum and launch it...and inside that virtual machine, you'll find yourself transported back in time, right into the middle of a game of Pong.

There are no VMware Tools installed in this virtual machine, so you'll need to use the Command key to capture/release the mouse; move your paddle by moving your mouse up and down. Rumor has it that VMware wrote this tool to help with some aspect of the program's development, but I think they did it just because it's cool and retro.

You can delete the virtual machine any time you like; it can be easily recreated via the same keyboard shortcut.

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