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| VMware Fusion [OLD VERSION] | ![VMware Fusion [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G9fY5S8fL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $41.95
You Save: $38.04 (48%)
New (12) Used (8) from $32.39
Avg. Customer Rating:  239 reviews
Sales Rank: 394
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: VMFUSMBX2
Model: VMFUSMBX2
UPC: 717103140372
EAN: 0717103140372
ASIN: B000UK3GVA
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Virtualization Solution Without A Doubt October 12, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been using VMware Workstation for about a year and a half now, primarily on Linux (Ubuntu) hosts but also on Windows hosts. I have used Workstation primarily to host Linux guests, with Fusion the focus has shifted to the Windows BootCamp guest primarily for webdev testing. I loved Workstation, and Fusion brings essentially the same product to Mac, with optimizations for running a Windows guest.
The user interface of Fusion has been revamped from the ground-up apparently, and I think it is overall an improvement. The main benefits of the new UI show up in the "Unity" view. In this mode, the running windowed applications of a Windows guest show up in the Mac OSX context, without being confined to the guest console. Fusion even shows the icon of running Windows apps in the Dock.
Integration with Boot Camp is excellent. The only issue I have experienced is that dual-booting into BootCamp/Windows allows you to use a later version of DirectX that VMware does not support. This means that DirectX apps will crash if you attempt to run then in Fusion (unless there is some fancy system profile setup you can work out of which I am not aware). This only applies to those of us dual-booting for our computer games. If you are using VMware's experimental DX8.1 support, you can just install the DX8.1 drivers and you should be good to go.
The interface to Fusion is very streamlined. The bulky one-window UI of Workstation (and Server Client) gives way to a variety of smaller widgets (the Library, the Launch Applications widget for Windows Unity, and seperate console windows for each VM). Unfortunately VMware also streamlined out multiple snapshots and snapshot trees (seems you can have one snapshot per VM). This is not a feature I use very often so it seems a fair trade for the price difference between Fusion and Workstation. You can even run Fusion headless if that is your thing (by booting a VM from the command line and killing the UI PIDs).
Installation note, with Boot Camp you will need to call Microsoft to re-activate your copy of Windows. Otherwise the process was relatively painless. Porting over my Linux VMs was also painless, those have been copied and ported from Linux hosts to Windows hosts to other Linux hosts and now to Mac Hosts, which is one reason I love virtualization so much.
VMware also has a strong discussion forum on their website. I have not tried their Customer Support numbers, but there has not been a problem I could not solve (well, at least the the definitive answer to) from their forums.
 Horrendous experience with set up and installation October 6, 2007
16 out of 29 found this review helpful
It took seven days and endless hours to reach the correct customers service. The actual company that produced this product kept on referring us to the master company and vice versa. Finally, they refused phone help and emailed, requiring that we start over from square one. After additional endless time, they never could help us install ANY print driver. Really anticipated this product but was extremely disappointed. I personally believe that Apple needs to develop their own product and make their excellent customer service available. Otherwise, what a nightmare!
Excellent October 6, 2007
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
First purchased a competitor's product. Very disappointed! Then someone told me about VMware. Very happy. Works very well on my Mac.
Simply the best October 5, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Forget about parellels, even VMWare for the computer is LAME compared to this version. Allows for quick, dependable access to your Windows or other envirornments.
 Awesome... can only get better! September 25, 2007
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Having finally crossed the border into MAC country after being a PC citizen for many many years its not so easy to give up the affliction to some of the PC programs so I picked up VMware Fusion & let me just say that it lets me have the best of both worlds. I read many reviews on Parallels & Fusion but decided to go with Fusion. I believe both programs are equally good. The installation was smooth as can be... I loaded up Windows XP Pro & voila! I had Windows purring away on my MAC! The best part of it is that the experience of using windows is actually more pleasant with the 'suspend' feature of Fusion which lets u literally take a snapshot of all the running programs under Windows & put it in a 'suspend' mode so the next time, one can just 'resume' where you left off!
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