VMware Completes Mac Virtualization Software

By the Betanews Staff | Published August 2, 2007, 2:05 PM

VMware on Thursday announced it has completed development of "Fusion," the company's desktop virtualization software for Macs, which enables Apple computers to run Windows or Linux from within Mac OS X. VMware said over 250,000 people had downloaded the Fusion beta release since December.

VMware is going head-to-head with Parallels, the current market leader for virtual machine software on Macs, which has become possible with Apple's switch to Intel processors. Both Parallels 3.0 and VMware Fusion cost $79.99 USD and are available to download online. VMware says Fusion supports more operating systems and includes power management safeguards so a virtual machine isn't corrupted if a laptop runs out of battery. More information can be found on VMware's Web site.

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Very cool keep up the great work VMWARE, your virtualzation products rock and have saved me hours rebuilding boxes.

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I don't know why everyone is always taking about VMware and Parallels when VirtualBox is free for Windows and Mac. On the Mac it's still a beta but it's free. I'm using it in Windows and VirtualBox is very good.

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Well, if VB could reliably import VMware guest images I would use it more.

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The power management would be nice; I just had to fix XP on my wife's Mac just this morning due to the battery running down and Windows not being shut down properly. (Luckily "Last known good configuration" worked)

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Why does the mac version of vmware cost money? What is the difference between the PC's GSX version of VMware and the MAC's Fusion version of VMware?

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Possibly because VMware Workstation costs money?

Having said that .. VMware is still the market leader to date.

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GSX is gone. VMware Server is free. It lacks a few features in VMware Workstation, but it works very well regardless.

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It's called a UPS.

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