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How does VMWare Fusion compile its list of guest OS applications (specifically for Windows) that can be found by "show package contents" of and then in the resulting window navigating to the "Applications" directory? I would like to be able to add something to this list and I just want to know where in my Windows guest OS I need to put it in order to show up in this list. | |||
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The concept of bundles is not a Fusion related item at all but a way that Mac OS X has allowed developers to group their data together for a long time. It allows to cut down on various versions of files being scattered all over the hard drive. In fact, if you head to /Applications, you'll be able to do the same thing : right-click, Show package contents, and you can see how an application is 'bundled' as well. Bundles are a well-used feature of Mac OS X. Developers can choose to register a file extension, for example ".vmwarevm", to be a bundle and act as a single file instead of a folder of files. I imagine the thinking is that developers can choose to hide some of the complexity of applications by packing up a handful of files into a single unit. Mac OS X applications, among many other things, are also bundles. It should be noted that other OSes don't understand bundles, and simply see a folder full of files, so it's not the sort of thing you can use in Windows. | |||||
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