As a new Mac convert, why would one use this, instead of VirtualBox?
I've had VirtualBox freeze on me a few times in just the last month or so I've tried it, but can't remember any Fusion lock-ups in almost 2 years of use.
VMware Fusion 4 Released
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Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#12VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )
$49 full price isn't that bad compared to Parallels 7. Not only you have to pay $49 for an upgrade , it will also slow down your boot time drastically[1]. VMware Fusion user can get P7 for $29[2] but from my experience I'd rather not switch. I upgrade to P7 few days ago, and today I'm switching to Fusion 4 hope to never become Parallel's customer again. (Unrelated note, it took Parallels 7 hours to send me an upgrade…
On my account page, license section, they've put this notice:
"Upgrades for the following products: View 5, Fusion 4, Workstation 8, Site Recovery Manager 5, and vFabric will be available on the licensing portal by the week of 9/19. If you have questions, please contact License support."
So maybe upgrade prices will be available next week.
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#13VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )
I've been using Fusion since it first came out and disappointed there is no upgrade pricing.
I don't use it as much anymore and don't see 4 as compelling enough to upgrade at full price, so will be passing on it for now.
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#14I tried out P7 when it was released, and immediately migrated back to Fusion 4 today when it came out.
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#15As a new Mac convert, why would one use this, instead of VirtualBox?
I've had VirtualBox freeze on me a few times in just the last month or so I've tried it, but can't remember any Fusion lock-ups in almost 2 years of use.
That's the reason I've switched to Fusion - too many of those random freezes was too much for my virtual Windows to handle, and it just plain stopped working. File system or disk image corruption, most likely.
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#16As a new Mac convert, why would one use this, instead of VirtualBox?
Fusion and Parallels both are a bit faster than VirtualBox and have more features.
Also, VMWare VMs will work with any VMWare product so if you are working with a team that uses VMWare elsewhere its nice to have.
If you are just trying to run a Windows app or two you are probably better off with VirtualBox since its free.
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#17As a new Mac convert, why would one use this, instead of VirtualBox?
Because of freezes and VM corruption. I've been using Fusion for years and never had any problems. It's worth the $40 (look around for a $10 off coupon code), if you're using the VMs for anything more than hobby/testing random OSes.
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#18VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )
Full price of $49? Or just plug in the fusion20 code and pay $39. It seems it's really the other way around and that they are giving everyone the upgrade price until the end of the year.
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
$49 full price isn't that bad compared to Parallels 7. Not only you have to pay $49 for an upgrade , it will also slow down your boot time drastically[1]. VMware Fusion user can get P7 for $29[2] but from my experience I'd rather not switch. I upgrade to P7 few days ago, and today I'm switching to Fusion 4 hope to never become Parallel's customer again. (Unrelated note, it took Parallels 7 hours to send me an upgrade…
On my account page, license section, they've put this notice: "Upgrades for the following products: View 5, Fusion 4 , Workstation 8, Site Recovery Manager 5, and vFabric will be available on the licensing portal by the week of 9/19. If you have questions, please contact License support." So maybe upgrade prices will be available next week.
Thank You!
Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released
#20Does anyone know if this supports the the vmwgfx Gallium3D driver for accelerated opengl in linux guests?
UPDATE: VMware responded (within 6 minutes) on Twitter and the answer is no. https://twitter.com/#!/vmwarefusion/status/11402734522400768...