The ability to seamlessly run Windows and Linux applications on your Mac just took another leap forward. VMware Fusion just dropped on Monday, and these are 10 things you can do on your shiny Mac with VMware under the hood.”[...] Thanks to jtroyer for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 945Diggs).
What other users say about this:
chrismag1979: Mac users like me: If you cannot get it done on a mac, then go buy a PC or go boot camp! VMware Fusion cost $80 and i myself tried it and it sucks! Though faster than Parallel, your iMac still runs like s*** on Fusion! And can do basic applications and 3D intensive application would slow down OSX.
thenome: If I had an Intel mac I may chose Fusion instead of Parallels.
They have come a long way.
chrismag1979: I really don’t why Mac user ain’t telling everyone that VM Fusion suck? I tried it on my iMac a week ago and my OSX runs like s***. I’d be better off with boot camp but Fusion? It slows down OSX
21.0: I hope it will create a VM off of your already installed Boot Camp drive. That’s probably the most important feature in parallels. Downloading the trial now…
StandardsDT: I submitted this days ago. And some one duplicates the story and it hits the homepage? Digg the original story.
http://digg.com/apple/The_wait_is_over_VMware_Fusion_is_available_now
websyndicate: Fusion is by far superior to Parallels the most recent betas along with 3.0 have been horrible. FYI it sets up Hardware Profiles for when you use boot camp to run in Fusion
thebuggalo: Does VMware Fusion require a partition? The one thing I love about Parallels is that I didn’t have to take a huge chunk of space out of my harddrive. does Fusion work the same way?
crypticreign: Why is this marketing piece getting dug?
infoshowzen: VMWare Fusion rocks.
I am a PC -> Mac convert, and Fusion has made it super easy for me to use all of my Windows apps that are required for current projects.
For example, I run a complete Visual Studio Studio 2005 environment inside Fusion, on a MacBook Pro. That includes SQL Server 2005 Enterprise and a variety of required tools and plugins. SQL Server is always on, along with ScaleOut StateServer (kind of like memcached for .net). All of these are very memory intensive. I have 756MB going to the VM. I removed most TSR apps to keep the overhead low.
I never have a problem with any applications — ever. It is as fast or faster than my older laptop (less memory and CPU on the old one of course).
I imaged my old Windows laptop (with VMWare Converter), restored it in Fusion. Done. No hassles. All my preferences saved. Everything just as when I left the PC.
Kudos to VMWare. They are doing great things for the server, and now the desktop. Since they have such a history with virtualization and they are about to go IPO in a big way, I think Parallels, and for other reasons including this, Windows, are going to have trouble retaining marketshare.
counterpart9: i’m interested to hear from anyone that has run solidworks or another another cpu heavy program using VMWare fusion, on a new mac. especially compared to running it thru boot camp.
Awspire: WINE, VMware… Everybody seems to hate Windows, but just cant live without it.
sunshinex: Buried for “Jonesin for some duke nukem”. WTF? It’s 2007.. Duke Nukem was released in 1996, making it 11 years old. It was DOS based!! The author mentioned taking advantage of VMWare Fusions DirectX 8.1 support. Last time I checked, being a fucking 11 year old DOS game, Duke Nukem did not take advantage of this.. Lame.
reichg: ” If you’re jonesing for some Duke Nukem or Tony Hawk, fire up VMware Fusion.” VMware is right, why would i want to run 10 year old games in bootcamp when i could run them in their virtual machine. Also why would I want to use the same partition of windows for bootcamp and windows ala parallels, when i can have one of each with VMware?
Alaerus: For those of you who have not tried it, I’d like to highly recommend CrossOver:
CJinNC: I tried Fusion it on my wife’s macbook and in less than a week…ditched my corp issued dell, bought a macbook and loaded vpn dialer and outlook in a VM pointed it to my work exchange server and game over. Works like a dream.
