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I'd like to display Virtual Machines (VMWare Workstation on Windows 7 host) as their own windows instead of as tabs in the VMWare Workstation menu, similar to how VMs are handled with VMWare Fustion on the Mac.

This question is similar to this one, but I do not want to run the VMs in unity mode.

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Just drag the tab out of the VMWare window and take it to the other monitor. If that's what you mean. It will create a new solitary window with the other running OS in it. Have done that on Ubuntu, and it should work the same for Windows 7.

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@klutch2 - Thanks for your reply! I can't drag the tab outside of the VMWare window, but I'm only using one monitor. Do you think it only works if you have a second monitor? – evan Feb 17 '11 at 21:54
@evan - You should be able to just drag it out of the VMWare window, you will then obviously have separate windows, not tabbed. If you did have two monitors, then yes it would work to drag to a different monitor. – Thiago M. Feb 17 '11 at 21:55
@klutch2 - Yeah that's what I figured, but I definitely can not drag a tab out of the window... could there be some setting in preferences I've somehow disabled which is preventing this? – evan Feb 17 '11 at 21:58
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@evan - I think just running a separate instance of VMWare, I don't recall if Windows allows you to do that. But it could help if you need to run multiple VM's. – Thiago M. Feb 17 '11 at 21:59
@klutch9 - Thanks! Two instance of VMWare does the trick. Can't wait until I can use Ubuntu as my main... :) – evan Feb 17 '11 at 22:10
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Use Remote Desktop (MSTSC in Win 7) and display each as a window.

goto> Start > search box type MSTSC. Enter your guest IP address into the address:enter image description here

You may have to enable remote client access on your guest. Here is a good article from 4sysops.com

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I think its funny that the accepted answer is factually completely wrong. There is a working workaround in the comments but that's it. WHereas this answer actually works, although it's not ideal, and had zero upvotes after nearly 10 months. +1 after all that time. – Warren P Dec 18 '11 at 14:03
thanks... I guess. The answer above is correct however and using RDP is certainly an acceptable practice. – Fergus Dec 19 '11 at 15:45
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