Today was the long awaited release of VMware’s Fusion 3.0 for everyone who has upgraded to Mac. It would seem that things are off to a good (?) start… VMware posted this on their Facebook feed this afternoon:
“Too much demand making it hard for everyone to get their VMware Fusion 3 upgrade. While we make [...]
In these days of readily available virtualization technology, I like to install new operating systems in virtual machines before I commit it to my machine. I do this all the time with Linux and Windows. So, with the release of Snow Leopard, I decided to give it a shot, and I thought VMware Fusion supported [...]
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You may occasionally find yourself in the situation where your Windows VM has overgrown the size that you created for its disk volume. After all, why wasted valuable ‘Macintosh HD’ space for Windows unnecessarily, right?
Don’t panic… to do so is very easy as long as your have Fusion 2.x (free upgrade if you don’t)! No [...]
The Apple platform has recently become an active part of our software development platform. I set out to build a virtualized Mac test and development environment in the same way that we have been doing for the Windows and Linux world for some time now. One of things I have quickly discovered is that although [...]
VMware Fusion 1.0 was and is great. I have always been a big fan of the product. Fusion 2.0 is promising to be even better! You can get your first look at what the finished product will look like with the release of RC-1. The upcoming new version (and currently in the release candidate) promises [...]
VMware’s Mac virtualization platform, Fusion, allows users to run in two different I/O modes. You can optimize for Virtual Machine Disk performance, or you can choose to optimize for other Mac applications running on the system. The second option uses unbuffered I/O so that Fusion takes up less memory on the system.
After finding that this [...]