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VMware Fusion (Mac)

by Smith Micro Software
Platform:   Mac OS X
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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  • Platform:   Mac OS X
  • Media: CD-ROM
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  • ASIN: B000UNRKB4
  • Release Date: 21 Sep 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 608 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Product Description
Run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Solaris, on your Macintosh at the same time as Mac OS X--without rebooting. Designed from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion allows you to run Mac and Windows applications side-by-side--quickly and effortlessly sharing information between the two operating systems' environments.

Run Windows and other operating systems on your Mac.

Run any version of Windows.

Full support for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD.

Run Windows applications just like Mac applications
Say goodbye to the Windows desktop and use the VMware Fusion Launch Palette or Spotlight to easily launch your Windows applications. Switch between all your Windows and Mac applications using Expose. Keep your favourite applications in the Dock, bring forward only the application you care about, and use your familiar Mac keyboard shortcuts the whole time.

Turn back time on your PC
Capture and save the exact state of your virtual machine with VMware Fusion's innovative Snapshot feature. If your Windows virtual machine becomes unresponsive, use the Snapshot feature to rollback to a known stable state with the click of a button.

Get the most out of your Mac hardware
Take full advantage of 64-bit and multi-core processors of your Mac for maximum flexibility. You can run 64-bit operating systems such as Windows Vista Ultimate 64 -bit Edition or leverage Virtual SMP to create and run multi-processor virtual machines.

Our cutting-edge 3D technology even lets you to play select DirectX 8.1 games on your Mac. Plus, get full read/write support for CDs and DVDs and complete USB 2.0 support--even for proprietary video cameras, Bluetooth devices and other Windows-only peripherals.

Run multiple operating systems on your Mac with ease
Easily use UNIX-based operating systems such as Linux and Solaris right alongside Windows and Mac OS X, with the ease and simplicity you've come to expect from your Mac. Only VMware Fusion makes it possible to copy and paste text between Mac and Linux or Solaris, or to drag and drop files from the Mac desktop to Linux or Solaris.

Get up and running with your favourite Windows applications quickly.

Enjoy access to Windows applications through a familiar Mac interface.

Customize your toolbar for integration with Fusion.

Built for the Mac

Run Windows applications like Mac applications
VMware Fusion transforms your Windows applications with VMware Unity feature, giving you the seamless Mac experience you expect. minimise Windows applications to the Dock, switch between Windows or Mac application with Expose, find and instantly launch any Windows application, and use familiar Mac keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste between Windows and Mac applications.

Designed for the Mac user
Get up and running with your favourite Windows applications quickly. VMware Fusion's user interface was designed exclusively for the Mac so things will work the way you expect them to, including customisable toolbars and configuration sheets.

Run Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Mac OS X at the same time
Run Microsoft Vista Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate 32- bit or 64-bit editions or any Windows XP edition side-by-side with Mac OS X.

Use your Boot Camp install side by side with your mac
Run Windows XP side-by-side with Mac OS X from your existing Boot Camp partition, which VMware Fusion automatically detects and when run the first time is updated to use optimised drivers when run as a virtual machine. Access your existing Boot Camp partition with the flexibility of running Windows natively or as a virtual machine. In addition, VMware Fusion has experimental support for Microsoft Vista on Boot Camp partitions.

Install Windows easily
Answer a few simple questions, insert a Windows CD and VMware Fusion does the rest to create a Mac-ready Windows virtual machine without you becoming a Windows expert.

Roll back and recover
Rollback allows you to take a Snapshot of the virtual machine at any point in time. If problems occur later, you can roll your virtual machine back to that known-good state with a single click.

Start where you left off
The suspend feature stores your applications' states so you can quickly resume work without restarting Windows and opening all your applications.

Move your virtual machine by copying a file
Exclusive feature:Your complete virtual machine is stored in a single, easy-to-manage package. Move your virtual machines to another hard drive or Mac simply by copying a file.

Use Shared Folders to share your Mac home folder or other folders to your virtual machines.

The suspend feature stores your applications' states so you can quickly resume work without restarting Windows.

Keep an eye on your laptop's battery level from Windows.

The Most Complete Virtualisation Platform

Full support for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on your Mac
Exclusive feature: Run 32-bit or 64-bit editions of Windows, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on your Mac. Copy and paste text and drag and drop files between your virtual machines and the Mac. Use Shared Folders to share your Mac home folder or other folders to your virtual machines. Resize the virtual machine window and the resolution of the virtual machine automatically changes. You can even download pre- configured Linux or Solaris virtual machines from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace to get started.

Future Proof with 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines
Exclusive feature: Run both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems in VMware Fusion virtual machines. As the world moves to 64-bit applications, you will be ready with 64-bit virtual machines on the latest Intel Core 2 Duo and Xeon Macs.

Multi-core for maximum flexibility
Exclusive feature: Leverage the full power of your Intel Mac by using two-way Virtual SMP to assign multiple cores with your virtual machines for maximum flexibility.

Easily share data between virtual machines and your Mac
Use Shared Folders to share your Mac home folder or other folders to your virtual machines. Copy and paste text and drag and drop files between your virtual machines and the Mac.

Run more virtual machines
Exclusive feature: VMware Fusion can use the full 16 GB of memory available with the Mac Pro or Xserve to run more virtual machines at the same time.

Accelerated 3D graphics let you run DirectX 8.1 3D savvy applications and play select DirectX 8.1 games.

Accelerated 3D graphics
Experimental hardware with accelerated 3D graphics let you run DirectX 8.1 3D savvy applications and play select DirectX 8.1 games in Window XP with Service Pack 2 virtual machines.

USB 2.0 support
VMware Fusion offers complete USB 2.0 support--even for proprietary video cameras, GPS, Bluetooth, and other devices that only work in Windows.

CD and DVD burning
SuperDrive is fully supported in any virtual machine with VMware Fusion.

Seamless, powerful networking
Windows shares your Mac's network connections and provides effortless switching between wired and AirPort/Wi-Fi connections. Add up to ten virtual network interfaces to support private and public networks. Or use host-only networking to keep your virtual machine isolated from the network for maximum safety.

Battery pass- through
Exclusive feature: Keep an eye on your laptop's battery level from Windows, ideal when running Windows full screen.

ACPI support
Your virtual PC shuts down completely when you say shut down and supports hibernation when using Boot Camp partition virtual machines.

Move to the Virtual World

Migrate your existing Windows PC to a virtual machine
Migrate your existing Windows PCs into Mac-ready virtual machines with the free VMware Converter Starter.

Virtual appliances
Choose from over 450 3rd party virtual appliances, pre- configured virtual machines designed to meet specific needs, at the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

Fully compatible with other VMware products
Existing VMware customers can leverage existing VMware virtual machines created with other VMware products, including VMware Workstation, VMware Server, and VMware Infrastructure 3, which are all fully compatible with VMware Fusion.


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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Does what Parallels only promises, 10 Oct 2007
By David Bradfords (London, England) - See all my reviews
As a long time Parallels user I was both disappointed in Parallels and not expecting much more from Fusion. The Parallels promise, of course, was "run both Windows and Mac at the same time!" The reality, as we all now know, is that while Parallels is worlds better than Bootcamp for ease of use and ready access to Windows, it slows down your Mac so much that nothing else runs. So you're still left with a choice: Windows or Mac, but not both. Fusion, though, let's me have my cake and eat it too. I can easily run two or three Windows programs side by side with my usual Mac programs and everything runs at full speed. What a difference! This is what I've been waiting for!! That said, Fusion is not perfect. It definitely lacks features that Parallels has (like multiple saved state versions), though it also has a couple of features that Parallels should copy (like multi-cpu support). The bottom line for me is simple: I used to love Parallels, but Fusion was a no-brainer upgrade as soon as I saw how much faster it was. I even found a converter to move my Parallels file into Fusion, which really made the switch painless.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best VM software for desktops that I have ever used., 2 Dec 2007
By Paulo E. Reichert "preichert" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I have used VMWare Workstation and Virtual PC in the PC platform and now I'm using VMWare Fusion on the Mac. This software is simply put very good.

It installs a virtual machine in very little time with almost no interaction from the user. The machines run fast and the Unity feature is great, allowing you to run the Windows apps out of the Windows desktop in the Finder. You can see the apps in the doc and launch apps from the VMWare menus.

Suspending and resuming VMs is also fast and it doesn't use too many resources on the host machine, allowing you to run some pretty heavy applications in the Mac while running the VM as well.

I haven't tested the 3D features as I don't play games and don't do much 3D on Windows, so I can vouch for them, but for what I need VMWare Fusion is perfect.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant product - Was the catalyst to get me to change to a Mac, 14 Jan 2008
By John Burns (London, England) - See all my reviews
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VMWare is 100% reliable and everything I could ever want.

Let me tell you about my application.

I'm a website developer programming on Microsoft SQL databases and ASP for a living. Unfortunately I need to be able to work from time to time on my laptop so if I wanted to go the way of the Mac, I needed a way to develop and test code on it.

I've managed to instal windows server, SQL server and Visual Studio onto a VMWare image with no problem at all. I can code in windows, host the asp on IIS in windows server and heres the cool bit, I can actually view the page using safari or firefox on the mac (by browsing to the IP address of the virtual machine).

I've also go linux images loaded too so VMWare still has all it's normal features for under £50.

6 star product - I'm very impressed
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5.0 out of 5 stars A useable interface that is straight-forward!
I have just bought this product and am delighted with it! It was so easy to install and use. I can easily run Windows XP Pro alongside my Mac OS X with no hiccups at all! Read more
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Published 11 months ago by R. A. Simacek

5.0 out of 5 stars It works pretty well within limits
I tried Parallels and had no end of hassle with it. VMFusion seems alot more stable as most of the other reviewers have said. There are a couple of niggles though. Read more
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Published 20 months ago by Mr. A. S. Measures

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as nice as Parallels to use. Feels like a PC product!
I have used Parallels for quite a while and thought i'd give Fusion a try as i'd read about it in all the Mac mags. Read more
Published 20 months ago by S. Brompton

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