Posts Tagged ‘Mac’

Parallels now offers a Baremetal Hypervisor for Mac

Posted by Todd on February 27th, 2010 under Headlines, Parallels
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Announced this week at Parallels Summit 2010, Parallels is now going to offer a baremetal hypervisor for Mac X Servers. You no longer have to run Max OS X Server with a virtualization server on top of it, which can bring better performance to the running virtual machines.
Some of the features include the ability to [...]

Fusion 3.0 Released, Demand is High

Posted by Ryan on October 27th, 2009 under Headlines, Mac, Uncategorized, VMware
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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 [...]

Snow Leopard is out! Want to virtualize it on your Leopard host?

Posted by Todd on August 29th, 2009 under Mac, VMware
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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 [...]

Virtualizing OS X Tiger

Posted by Mike on June 9th, 2009 under Mac, Solutions, VMware
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Before we begin, I would like to preface this blog post: The steps and topics contained in this post are purely theoretical and are meant to appeal to academia only. The staff at VMHero assumes no liability for any infringement which may occur as a result of following any of the steps below. We do not [...]

Virtual Mac Test Lab

Posted by Ryan on May 10th, 2009 under Mac, Solutions, VMware
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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 Hits RC-1

Posted by Ryan on September 4th, 2008 under Headlines, Mac, VMware
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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 [...]

Fusion 1.1.3 Released

Posted by Ryan on June 2nd, 2008 under Headlines, Mac, VMware
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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 [...]