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I used the Unity feature of VMware Player, which allows you to display windows from the guest directly on the host system.

But according to the VMWare community forums , the Unity feature has been removed for Linux hosts in Player Version 12.

What else can I use to provide this feature?

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  • What is the unity feature? Do you mean wine? – derHugo Nov 09 '17 at 18:18
  • @derHugo it is a helpful feature to use any software in the guest outside the VM, like Wine but for me it's better. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/518568 – Meky Nov 09 '17 at 18:24
  • @chaske other VM softwares also support this feature but in other names – Meky Nov 09 '17 at 18:28
  • @chaskes and is this feature work in VBox? – Meky Nov 09 '17 at 19:10
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    You need to install the guest additions into your guest and then seamless mode in vbox will be available. Supposed to be essentially the same as unity mode for vmware. – chaskes Nov 09 '17 at 19:20
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    In VirtualBox it is called "seamless" mode. See e.g. https://askubuntu.com/a/154232/3940 – Takkat Nov 09 '17 at 20:08
  • @Meky Your link didn't really help me ... but what Takkat mentioned seems to be what you are looking for. I only know this feature for VirtualBox .. didn't see this in Vmware so far. – derHugo Nov 10 '17 at 07:33
  • Thanks @chaske you really helped me, VB really good and the Seamless was perfect and it's exactly what I need. – Meky Nov 10 '17 at 19:05
  • Glad it worked out. I'm going to edit your question and make an answer, since no one else has jumped in yet. There are other questions on seamless mode, but none of them appear to be a dupe of this one that I saw. – chaskes Nov 10 '17 at 19:07
  • Thanks also @Takkat you also helped me and now the Seamless working 100% with me :) – Meky Nov 10 '17 at 19:12
  • Yes @derHugo exactly, Seamless was what I need, thanks – Meky Nov 10 '17 at 19:15
  • Yes @chaskes I think a lot of users will need your answer specially who moved from Mac to Ubuntu, The Seamless or Unity was very important for me on Mac and I missed it when I moved to Ubuntu. – Meky Nov 10 '17 at 19:19

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You can use Seamless Mode (also called seamless windows ) in VirtualBox.

With the "seamless windows" feature of VirtualBox, you can have the windows that are displayed within a virtual machine appear side by side next to the windows of your host.

To enable seamless mode, after starting the virtual machine, press the Host key (normally the right control key) together with "L". This will enlarge the size of the VM's display to the size of your host screen and mask out the guest operating system's background.

To go back to the "normal" VM display (i.e. to disable seamless windows), press the Host key and "L" again.

(Source: VirtualBox seamless windows in online help)

In order to use seamless windows, you need to first install the VirtualBox guest additions.

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