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Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by evilduck »

alexg0 wrote: post #10

As a new Mac convert, why would one use this, instead of VirtualBox?

I prefer VMware's method of handling dual screen guests better. VirtualBox creates two windows that each have to be manually full screened, Fusion just magically handles both monitors from the same window when you tell it to use both in full screen.

Fusion is much more "Mac-like" and feels at home on OSX. Virtual Box is great if you can't afford something else (and often sufficient), but Virtual Box on OSX feels too much like Virtual Box on Windows or Linux, it just feels slightly out of place.

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by evilduck »

pat2man wrote: post #16
alexg0 wrote: post #10

As 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.

Except for OSX VMs built using Fusion's built-in capabilities. The other VMware products don't ship the required libraries to boot them.

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by zeratul »

What happen with DirectX 11?

"The WDDM driver for Windows 7 and Vista now includes support for DirectX 9.0EX with Aero and OpenGL 2.1. Windows XP now includes support for DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1."

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by lawnchair_larry »

sirn wrote: post #5
jpitz wrote: post #3

VMWare 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…

Wow, from [1]:

I've been experiencing the same issue...this was the response from tech support.

"As I understand the issue that since upgrading from 6 to 7, OSX now requires login twice with filevault2 startup volume, and takes much longer to boot.

I regret the inconvenience caused.

In order to resolve the issue, please follow the steps given below:

1. Click on Apple icon on Menu bar and select 'System Preferences'.

2. Under 'Personal' you can see an option 'Security & Privacy' click on it.

3. Select 'FileVault' tab there you can see 'Turn off FileVault'.

Really, that is their solution? Ouch!

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by jemeshsu »

jpitz wrote: post #3

VMWare 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 just logged in to vmware.com as I bought old Fusion. There is a message below. So an upgrade is coming.

>Upgrade Entitlements Timing >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.

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by yardie »

evilduck wrote: post #22
pat2man wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Except for OSX VMs built using Fusion's built-in capabilities. The other VMware products don't ship the required libraries to boot them.

You have to downgrade the vmx to prep a fusion vm to be loaded into esx. Or you can download the vmware convertor app that will transfer the vm, convert the vmx, and register the vm in esx.

I use the application weekly for this task.

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by suking »

I don't even get how people can use VMware. I've tried it on my macbook and it's unbearably slow. I bought a cheap PC off of craigslist because VMware was too slow to use. 4 gigs of ram and still lagged like all hell.

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by hemancuso »

I wish Fusion worked half as well as VMware Workstation does on Windows. OS X's memory management appears to shoulder most of the blame.

Darwin loves to hold on to recently wired memory as long as possible and does not gracefully dump out 2GB of inactive memory at a moments notice. The performance of snapshots as well as multiple VMs even inside 8GB of RAM totally sucks compared to workstation.

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