On May 30th, VMware released the 1.1.3 update to Fusion for the Mac. This maintenance release fixes a variety of issues. Below is a summary of the fixes for this release:
- Corrects a problem in which VMware Fusion encountered reactivation problems in the native Boot Camp partition and the Boot Camp virtual machine when installing Windows Vista SP1.
- Fixes a problem in VMware Fusion 1.1.2 that caused HGFS mounting failures in Linux guest operating systems.
- Fixes a problem where VMware Fusion did not distinguish between Traditional and Simplified Chinese and updated Simplified Chinese on-line help.
- Corrects a problem in which a virtual machine originally created with a product other than Fusion got the error “Cannot connect virtual device sound” when it tried to play a sound.
- VMware Fusion 1.1.1 incorporated a workaround for Apple bug 5679432 (Mac OS X hang under heavy disk load when unbuffered I/O is in use). That version of Fusion disabled unbuffered disk I/O on Mac OS X 10.5 hosts, even if the user selected Optimize for Mac OS application performance in VMware Fusion preferences. Apple fixed this bug in Mac OS X 10.5.3, so VMware Fusion 1.1.3 removes the workaround when the guest operating system is Mac OS X 10.5.3 or higher.
Download the update here.
