VMware Fusion public beta available

I'm curious as to how I'm supposed to install RHEL on a Fusion VM if I can't edit which iso the CD drive is pointing to. No good here. Workstation for the PC is awesome. I was hoping this would be the same.

Well given how SLOOOWWWWW VMWare is on my MBP, I'll keep parallels. Yeah I know there's DEBUG running, but doesn't change the fact. I'll wait until it's GM before I'll touch it again.

Regarding the use of Parallels in an academic setting with the cost of Windows. I'd recommend you look @ MSDN Academic Alliance. It's a VERY cheap way to get licensing for nearly every MS product including Windows.

-- Shawn

For me VMWare rocks. It allows me to prepare for example some new OpenBSD packages as well as test some new features of Linux kernel. And I dont have to pay for it, for now. So this is a great product for all network admins, programmers and other IT people, who use Unux every day.

Late to the game and when downloading the beta you need to fill out all sorts of private details. Identity and e-mail ok, but other than that, no thanks.

Some of you guys are passing judgement on a product that is just simply in BETA and comparing it to a final product with many months of fine tuning.

Of course the thing is unstable, of course it will lack some features right now, of course it isnt comparable to Parallels yet. Its a damn BETA!

So far my biggest issue, still getting ready to install it, is the beta-download page... Come on EVERY field is required... this thing has no smarts to it! I'm a lone home user... so all that business stuff goes out the door... and yea I kinda made up information... so if any one from VMware call "me" they will get the a fax machine for my fav restaurant (hey the menu was next to me)

Q, the cocoa version of QEMU, works just fine. I am running Haiku (Be) OS on it now. It's fast, reasonably stable, and free. Take a look: http://www.kju-app.org/kju/

VMWare coming out on OS X is huge for anyone who already uses VMWare, which is a whole lot of Windows and Unix users out there. I personally use it all the time, so this is big news for me, because now I can use all my VMWare virtual machines on OS X without booting into Windows.

I think there are two type of users who use Parallels and VMWare on OS X. One, is a person who just uses it to run one copy of Windows to run the applications they can't on OS X. And the more typical VMWare user, who runs many different Virtual Machines for development, servers, etc.

The first group, which I think a lot of people on this forum are, don't understand why the features of VMWare matter. For them, Parallels is probably better. But for anyone who needs to run more than one Virtual Machine, and is constantly creating new ones, or is an existing VMWare user, VMWare rocks. Note: I haven't tried fusion yet, so I'm basing this on VMWare for Windows and Linux.

I think these two products really are meant for different audiences. When VMWare Workstation comes out for OS X, I'll happily pay my $190, because for what I do with it, it is worth it.

I got the email directly from VMWare announcing the fusion beta. I followed the links in their email but all that I get is a message telling me that I'm not authorized. It's the same message that I get when I try to go look at the vmware forum that Shawn Morel mentioned in message 9.

As the owner of three PowerPC Macs (and unlikely to upgrade anytime soon), I really wish they'd do a VMware Console for PPC. This isn't the full VM system (which I know can't happen on PPC), but simply the visual interface to a VMware server system that'd run on my dual Xeon linux server in the basement. All it has to do is be the interface -- it really shouldn't be that hard.

I know I could just run VMware console *on* the server and send it to the client over Xwindows, but that's just nowhere near as elegant and would likely preclude hooking any local peripherals to a running VM.