VMware Fusion 3.1.3, a maintenance update that resolves some known issues and includes improved functionality for Mac users, is now available as a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 3.x users, the developers announced today.
- VMware heeft enkele dagen geleden versie 3.1 build 261058 van zijn virtualisatieprogramma Fusion uitgebracht. Met deze applicatie kunnen met behulp van virtuele machines diverse besturingssystemen.
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- Yes, VMware Fusion includes a simple Migration Assistant for Windows that allows you to quickly and easily move your entire PC to your Mac as a virtual machine. Install a simple application on your PC, connect it to your Mac, and VMware Fusion will detect your PC and take care of the rest.
- VMware Fusion 3.1 - Slow Windows Phone Emulator. I'm working on a new Windows Phone 7 project. Unfortunately, I have only access to a VMware Fusion instance of Windows, from where I run Visual Studio and the Phone Emulator. My problem is that the phone emulator takes ages (well, seconds) just to show up for example the keyboard for user input.
A powerful virtualization solution, VMWare Fusion allows Mac users to run multiple operating systems on their machines, simultaneously.
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Using ‘virtual machines,’ VMware Fusion even lets OSes running side by side communicate with each other, such as copying one file on OS X and pasting it in the Windows VM.
VMware is eager to highlight a few important changes in the free VMware Fusion 3.1.3 release including support for Windows 7 SP1 32-bit & 64-bit (Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1), support for Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 32-bit & 64-bit, improved reliability accessing shared files on the Mac, fixed slow first page loading in Internet Explorer 8, and improved handling of smartphones including the Nokia N8.
That’s not all though. According to the developers, they’ve resolved a ton of other issues with the software.
Albeit less noteworthy, we’re highlighting those that should matter the most to our Mac-using fanbase.
· A Mac OS X Server 10.6.x virtual machine is unable to access IDE hard disks and CD/DVD drives after the guest is updated to 10.6.5 or newer. If the boot volume is on an IDE hard disk, the guest will fail to boot.
· Previously, when you created a Mac OS X virtual machine in Fusion, the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file contained an absolute path to the virtual machine disk (.vmdk) file. This setting prevented you from copying the virtual machine because the copy pointed to the .vmdk file for the original virtual machine. Now, the .vmx file contains a relative path to the .vmdk file and you can copy Mac OS X virtual machines.
As it is the case with every incremental release of Fusion, all the features from prior releases have been incorporated as well.
VMware has released its new version of Fusion, 3.1. It has lots of new features which have been listed below.
Vmware Fusion 3.1 Free
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Improved Overall Performance – 35% Faster than VMware Fusion 3.0
*Reduced time for suspending virtual machines
*Faster Windows application launch times
*Greatly improved scrolling speeds in Windows Vista and Windows 7 with Mac OS X 10.6.3
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2D/3D Graphics Improvements – Up to 5X Better 3D Graphics than VMware Fusion 3.0
*OpenGL 2.1 for Windows Vista
*OpenGL 2.1 for Windows 7
*Greatly improved graphics performance
*Aero is much faster on Windows Vista and Windows 7
*Some games up to 10x faster than VMware Fusion 3.0 with VMware Fusion 3.1 and latest Mac OS X release
*Greatly improved scrolling speeds in Windows Vista and Windows 7 with Mac OS X 10.6.3
Unity Improvements
*Minimizing Unity apps to the dock now shows app contents
*Works with Exposé and Dock Exposé
USB “EasyConnect”
*Easily assign USB devices to virtual machine or Mac when connected
*Remember USB device assignment between Mac and virtual machine restarts
Bigger, More Complex Virtual Machines
*8-way SMP
*2 TB virtual disks
PC Migration Improvements
*Improvements to Migrate Your PC assistant, including better validation of names and better location prompt
*Prompt user if Mac OS X guest account prevents guest access to shared folders instead of failing
*Open new virtual machine upon successful migration
*Enhanced user interface on PC being migrated including:
* New progress dialog on the PC being migrated as well as in VMware Fusion
* Option to show converter logs and troubleshooting steps on PC if PC migration fails
* Avoids port conflicts with Web server software installed on PC being migrated such as IIS, Tomcat, and Apache
Vmware Fusion 13
Boot Camp Improvements
*Up to 5x disk performance in Boot Camp virtual machines
*New option to minimize prompting for password (authentication dialogs) when using Boot Camp virtual machines
*Handle Mac OS X disk changes better to avoid multiple references to Boot Camp partition in the Virtual Machine Library
*Support for Office 2010 activation in Boot Camp virtual machines
OVF Tool 2 Comes with VMware Fusion 3.1
*Directly convert between any vSphere, VMX, or OVF source format to any vSphere, VMX, or OVF target format
*Deploy virtual machines to vSphere using OVF Tool
*Import and export of OVF packages into a vApprun 1.0 workspace. For more information about vApprun, see http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vapprun
Vmware Fusion 12
User Interface Enhancements
*Drag a disk image or virtual disk to the installation media pane of the assistant
*Add shortcut for opening a virtual machines configuration file in default text editor for VMware Fusion (Hold down option and right-click in Virtual Machine Library)
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User Interface Enhancements
*User Experience Improvement Program
New Guest Operating Systems Supported
*Ubuntu 8.0.4.4: 32- and 64-bit
*Ubuntu 10.04: 32- and 64-bit
*SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Service Pack 1: 32- and 64-bit
*SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1: 32- and 64-bit
*RHEL 5.4: 32- and 64-bit