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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Source: http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/

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Also, they are crocodiles ;)

March 05 2007 at 9:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Damn those greedy alligators!

March 05 2007 at 9:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jim S

WRT greater than and less than signs, think of them as hungry alligators: the mouth is always trying to swallow the larger value.

March 03 2007 at 9:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kordan

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)---

March 03 2007 at 7:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Goobimama

I can never figure out which is "Greater" < or >....?

March 03 2007 at 7:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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.

March 03 2007 at 2:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael

VM Converter doesn't appear to work with parallels images. Anyone have any ideas on converting my parallels intall to test VMware?

March 02 2007 at 7:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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.

March 02 2007 at 12:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark 2000

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.

March 02 2007 at 12:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lakiolen

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.

March 02 2007 at 11:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply