This is a great tool, for vm's. Sometimes it does seem to have a problem
letting go of ram after it is closed. But most of the time there are no
problems.
VMWare fusion is a resource hog.. no im not joking. Anyway yea well maybe its
just my macbook but I find it almost impossible to simultaniously run OSX and in
my case Fedora. Lagged up OSX so much.
Running on a 4GB Macbook Pro and it's phenomenal. Gets all that Windows stuff
out of the way (including connecting to the office with OpenVPN) and allows me
to do all my work on one computer. I setup a Bootcamp partition when I first
bought the Mac but installed a bunch of stuff on it, an validated it, etc., so I
didn't want to start over. VMWare made it possible to run an XP session in the
partition that was concurrent to OS/X without breaking a sweat. I love it.
No use for Bootcamp or multibootloaders if you have VMWare.. Not for gaming
and uses a lot of RAM, but most new macs can have around 4GB which is quite
enough..
Eliminates any argument that PCs are better in the workplace. You can run all
your out-dated Windows applications in a little window where they belong, whilst
taking full advantage of the superiority of your Mac. Resource hungry? That
would be Windows.
All in all an excellent product.
I used to use the Linux version years ago before i switch to Mac. I started
using Parallels because it was the first, solid Mac virtualization. I recently
switch from Parallels to VMWare and couldn't be happier. VMWare blows Parallels
away performance-wise.
Great stuff this. I can use Windows XP, Vista, Ubuntu and SUSE Linux at the
same time. Really like the feature where you can 'merge' Windows and Mac. Uses a
lot of RAM, though.
y tngo usandola como 18 meses y funciona al 80% de velocidad en ventanas
separadas pero cuando la usas en pantalla completa se incremente el desempeño
muy drasticamente, al usar en forma combinada se reduce a menos del 50% pero de
que funciona mejor que parallels funciona mucho mejor
Rather slow, but thanks to 'saving the virtual machine state' very quick on
start-up. I mainly use it with Ubuntu and to show off to Windows users, they
don't believe their eyes, MacOsX, Xp, Vista and Ubuntu al on one desktop
A fantastic product. Once I broke down and bought it the need for bootcamp
was basically eliminated. Especially since 2.0 came out with much better linux
support and more stable 3d acceleration in XP / Vista.
This is a great tool, for vm's. Sometimes it does seem to have a problem letting go of ram after it is closed. But most of the time there are no problems.
Become slow when running too much VMs in the same time :) Still a great tool :)
VMWare fusion is a resource hog.. no im not joking. Anyway yea well maybe its just my macbook but I find it almost impossible to simultaniously run OSX and in my case Fedora. Lagged up OSX so much.
Running on a 4GB Macbook Pro and it's phenomenal. Gets all that Windows stuff out of the way (including connecting to the office with OpenVPN) and allows me to do all my work on one computer. I setup a Bootcamp partition when I first bought the Mac but installed a bunch of stuff on it, an validated it, etc., so I didn't want to start over. VMWare made it possible to run an XP session in the partition that was concurrent to OS/X without breaking a sweat. I love it.
I love it and use it very often for running windows xp and server 2003.
No use for Bootcamp or multibootloaders if you have VMWare.. Not for gaming and uses a lot of RAM, but most new macs can have around 4GB which is quite enough..
Eliminates any argument that PCs are better in the workplace. You can run all your out-dated Windows applications in a little window where they belong, whilst taking full advantage of the superiority of your Mac. Resource hungry? That would be Windows.
All in all an excellent product.
I have to compile windows applications in vmware fusion. The osx version is much better than the linux version. Performance is so good.
I used to use the Linux version years ago before i switch to Mac. I started using Parallels because it was the first, solid Mac virtualization. I recently switch from Parallels to VMWare and couldn't be happier. VMWare blows Parallels away performance-wise.
Best virtualization program for Mac. Period.
Great stuff this. I can use Windows XP, Vista, Ubuntu and SUSE Linux at the same time. Really like the feature where you can 'merge' Windows and Mac. Uses a lot of RAM, though.
y tngo usandola como 18 meses y funciona al 80% de velocidad en ventanas separadas pero cuando la usas en pantalla completa se incremente el desempeño muy drasticamente, al usar en forma combinada se reduce a menos del 50% pero de que funciona mejor que parallels funciona mucho mejor
Rather slow, but thanks to 'saving the virtual machine state' very quick on start-up. I mainly use it with Ubuntu and to show off to Windows users, they don't believe their eyes, MacOsX, Xp, Vista and Ubuntu al on one desktop
A fantastic product. Once I broke down and bought it the need for bootcamp was basically eliminated. Especially since 2.0 came out with much better linux support and more stable 3d acceleration in XP / Vista.
I switched to VMware Fusion after Parallel caused some booting troubles w/ XP SP3 and haven't looked back since then.