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VMWare Fusion 1.1 beta hits RC status
Sure, it's not like you had scads of free time today, but in case you're hankering for 164 MB of virtualization goodness, be it known that VMWare Fusion Beta 1.1 reached release candidate status yesterday, and you can download the new beta (along with a 30-day trial key, if you're not already a Fusion user) from VMWare's site.I've been testing the 1.1 beta for a while now, and although it's a bit slower than 1.0 (probably due to remaining debug code) it seems to be working very well. If you're moving to Leopard today, 1.1 is what you want --
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
adam bucci said 1:05PM on 10-26-2007
after spending an hour on the dark side this morning i can say vmware 1.0 works fine with leopard.
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Rae Whitlock said 1:23PM on 10-26-2007
Is it wishful thinking to hope that they've fixed the Logitech Control Center bug?
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grey said 1:31PM on 10-26-2007
So, I've been running Version 1.0 (51348) under leopard since Wednesday, with 0 problems. That said, friends who were running parallels 3 under leopard got their networking stack broken.
I'll wait until it's out of beta and I get my little VMware "you have a new version available for download" notice from my app before installing.
Vmware > parallels _again_ (I ditched that shit when 10.4.10 upgrade kernel paniced on parallels' craptastic USB stack).
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Joe Rusell said 1:34PM on 10-26-2007
Confirmed, 1.0 works like a champ (as does the 2 & 3 of Parallels).
Any more-better enhancements known w/ the 1.1 beta?
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JD said 2:39PM on 10-26-2007
Funny thing is, I use VMware products a lot at work (including the enterprise stuff) and I own Fusion. But every time I try using Fusion for serious work -- I end up going back to Parallels after a week or so. Using Fusion would be easier for me interop-wise, but it just doesn't get the "Mac thing" as well as Parallels. IMHO only of course. Anyone else feel this way (or vice-versa) about the two products?
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Rae Whitlock said 2:59PM on 10-26-2007
@JD: Yeah, I feel vice-versa, I think. I own Fusion and Parallels, and Fusion just looks and feels more like a native Mac application to me (that is, when I'm running it in a window, of course).
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Al said 3:04PM on 10-26-2007
Wow....this increased the overall speed (booting up and general interaction) about 500% percent when using it on my boot camp partition. Awesome.
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Al said 3:11PM on 10-26-2007
I agree that Parallels feels more like a native mac application. The only reason I'm using Vmware is because of the Dx9 support (however rudimentary it may be). My radar application (GRLevel3) needs directx9 and I'm simply not willing to boot into windows to use it. If Parallels gets on the bandwagon and introduces dx9 support, I'd almost certainly go back.
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sarah said 4:31PM on 10-26-2007
Fusion 1.0 is working for me like a charm with Leopard.
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kelvin said 1:57AM on 10-28-2007
my bridged network stops working (vmware 1.0) after i installed leopard. Anyone has the same issue and know what to do ?
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kelvin said 2:00AM on 10-28-2007
VMWARE: Version 1.0 (51348)
I used bridged networking and i got an error
"The network bridge on device /dev/vmnet0 is not running."
this happens after I did a clean install of Leopard and then migrate my backup.
anyone has same issue and knows the solution?
i am looking to try vmware fusion 1.1 to see if that fixes this.
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