VMware releases Fusion 1.0 on Monday
patrick j
I've noticed that at MacIntouch
they've included this item:
VMware announced that it will release the final version of
Fusion 1.0, its virtualization software for Macs, on Monday,
August 6, with boxed versions available at retail in
mid-month. Highlights include Unity, which makes it possible
to use Windows applications alongside Mac applications,
multi-core support in virtual machines, snapshots of virtual
machine states, drag-and-drop file transfers, Boot Camp
auto-discovery, support for 64-bit guest operating systems
(on 64-bit Mac Intel hardware) and more. Prior to the
release on Monday, VMware Fusion is still available for
pre-order at $39.99 for an electronic download (release
price will be $79.99).
I've been using this for a short while now and so far I'm finding it to be
really quite a superb application.
I think that the $39.99 purchase price is really excellent value for money,
but that will end before Monday so I think if you want to buy it at that
price you'd better get your skates on :)
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Patrick - Brighton, UK
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Calum
> I've been using this for a short while now and so far I'm finding it to be
> really quite a superb application.
+1. Seems to support non-Windows guests particularly well-- I switched
to VMware from Parallels this week for running OpenSolaris, and was
delighted to find clock sync, sound and networking functional out the
box, and the ability to drag/drop/cut/paste between OSX and Solaris.
Even the Mac's battery charge information is passed through to a Solaris
VM-- a much superior experience to what Parallels currently offers.
patrick j
The reason I switched from Parallels to Fusion was that Parallels 3.0
simply would not run on my computer. Parallels 2.5 was very good and
stable, but 3.0 was for me a real problem. I tried everything and talked a
lot with very helpful people at the Parallels discussion forum but
eventually I had to give up because I could not spend the rest of my life
trying to get Parallels 3.0 working. To their credit I got my upgrade fee
for 3.0 back from Parallels which was good of them.
Then I noticed that VMware were doing this offer for Fusion which meant it
cost just a bit more than Parallels upgrade to 3.0. So I tried out Fusion
and found it to work extremely well for my fairly simple requirements. For
me "Unity" mode is great for having IE 6 or 7 open in a window apparently
in Mac OS X, because for checking web-site compatibility during web-site
construction it is so handy.
TaliesinSoft
<0001HW.C2D96149...@News.Individual.Net>):
> The reason I switched from Parallels to Fusion was that Parallels 3.0
> simply would not run on my computer. Parallels 2.5 was very good and
> stable, but 3.0 was for me a real problem. I tried everything and talked a
> lot with very helpful people at the Parallels discussion forum but
> eventually I had to give up because I could not spend the rest of my life
> trying to get Parallels 3.0 working. To their credit I got my upgrade fee
> for 3.0 back from Parallels which was good of them.
Interestingly I'm running Parallels Desktop 3.0 (Build 5060 Beta) without any
known problems on my MacBook Pro which is running OS X 10.4.10. I did have a
problem printing until I downloaded and install the latest version of Apple's
Bonjour for Windows.
--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... talies...@mac.com
Frank Pirrone
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>
> Interestingly I'm running Parallels Desktop 3.0 (Build 5060 Beta)
> without any known problems on my MacBook Pro which is running OS X
> 10.4.10. I did have a problem printing until I downloaded and install
> the latest version of Apple's Bonjour for Windows.
Ditto, just to let readers know that problems with Parallels were
reported throughout the last beta, but that it's a very functional,
highly performing app that's handled everything I've thrown at it -
Solaris 10, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Server, and XP.
It appears to now run fine on the vast majority of users configurations.
Also, in general, virtualization is wildly useful and efficient.
Frank
--
"Life is not a spectator sport" - Jackie Robinson
Burt Johnson
Works great if you only have one disk, as MacBooks do. Completely
unable to run it on a MacPro with 4 internal disks though. It refuses
to run if there is more than one disk mounted.
I have not been able to run Parallels since upgrading, and also switched
to Fusion. Vastly better product, even in beta version.
--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
Burt Johnson
Completely refuses to run if you are using Bootcamp Vista and have more
than one disk attached though. Some people report being able to use it
if they remove all USB/Firewire drives, but those of us with MacPro and
internal disks simply cannot run it at all.
the patch last week did not fix the problem either.