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VMware Fusion Beta 2 with Experimental 3D Graphics
Well this is interesting, in the wake of all the hype over the new release of Parallels comes a potential bombshell from competitor VMware. We mentioned the first beta release back in December, but now the second beta of VMware fusion has appeared and includes the long sought-after "experimental" Direct X 8.1 accelerated 3D graphics support (news of which leaked some time ago). It also features a Rollback feature that lets you "take a snapshot of your virtual machine configured just the way you like it, so you can quickly roll back to that ideal state whenever you need to, with a single click." Of course, Parallels still has cool exclusive features like Coherence mode, but VMware's offering looks more and more tempting. Hopefully this will spur the Parallels guys to getting 3D support out the door.The beta is available for download, but registration is required.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Twist said 10:03AM on 3-02-2007
3D Hardware Acceleration > Coherence
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rob said 10:17AM on 3-02-2007
3D Hardware Acceleration < Coherence
It is a personal thing.
I am very happy to see competition in this area, both will likely get better and better.
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Me said 10:30AM on 3-02-2007
I have to agree that Coherence is a better feature. If I want to play a game, I'll just use Boot Camp.
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lakiolen said 11:48AM on 3-02-2007
Do Parallels and Fusion play nicely together when installed? I have Parallels installed but want to try out Fusion, but not badly enough to uninstall Parallels.
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Mark 2000 said 12:14PM on 3-02-2007
A better question is, can fusion and parallels use the same disk image? It would be great to switch between the two depending on the needs.
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tc said 12:47PM on 3-02-2007
they cant use the same image. But you can convert the parallels image to a vmware image using vm converter so you wont have to install xp twice.
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michael said 7:31PM on 3-02-2007
VM Converter doesn't appear to work with parallels images. Anyone have any ideas on converting my parallels intall to test VMware?
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JeffDM said 2:26AM on 3-03-2007
I don't think it's out of the question to suggest that both products will have 3D graphics and coherence pretty soon. I haven't gotten around to installing Windows on my current computer. I had the Parallels beta with a Windows install for a while but never used it for anything.
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Goobimama said 7:35AM on 3-03-2007
I can never figure out which is "Greater" < or >....?
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Kordan H said 7:47AM on 3-03-2007
The item to which the larger "space" of the symbol is pointing, is greater. Greater space, equals greater. The item that the point is towards is lesser (no space). --(space)-- > ---(no space, point)---
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Jim S said 9:36AM on 3-03-2007
WRT greater than and less than signs, think of them as hungry alligators: the mouth is always trying to swallow the larger value.
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Kendal said 9:22AM on 3-05-2007
Damn those greedy alligators!
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Kendal said 9:23AM on 3-05-2007
Also, they are crocodiles ;)
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