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WWDC '08: VMWare Fusion

by Brett Terpstra Jun 12th 2008 at 11:00AM

Pat Lee from VMWare sat down with me to share the latest news on the VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta. Among the big new features: the ability to run 10.5 Server as a virtual machine. Check out the interview after the jump, and check out the VMWare blog for some 10-screen virtualization fun. There's a feature demo available on YouTube, and if -- after you've taken all of that in -- you're dying to get in on the beta, head to the public beta release page for more information.



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sylvaticus

what i'm really hoping for is that Fusion 2.0 will allow me to run vista aero! i know some hate it, but i'm switching to the mac platform (only three weeks so far) and i do love vista, especially with aero.

i don't play games; all i need is to run office 2007, quickbooks and quicken, and a few little apps like book collector, or my wine cataloging DB.

does anyone know if Fusion 2.0 will run aero (directx 9)?

thanks!
keith

June 12 2008 at 8:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scapegoat

The current beta doesn't seem to support OS X server for me either.

However, according to the video, OS X Server support will be in the Next beta, not the one that is currently available.

June 12 2008 at 5:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Russ

no osx server support on my beta

June 12 2008 at 1:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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jasseml

to virtualize server you must run vmware on a server. works fine for me

June 12 2008 at 3:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RazorD

The OS X server thing is utterly awesome. Really happy about that :)

June 12 2008 at 12:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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MiG

So if OS X server runs in VMware, why not just OS X client?

June 12 2008 at 12:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tristan OTierney

@miguel It's a licensing issue -- Apple specifically forbids it in the Leopard Client EULA.

June 12 2008 at 1:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg

Bootcamp still is the best option if you want to do anything gaming related. I have a MacBook (integrated gfx) which is fine for games on OSX, but can't even do DX8 in windows due to the lack of Intel gfx support.
Needless to say, as soon as I find my windows disk, I'm making a bootcamp partition.

June 12 2008 at 12:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dagamer34

I still can't play Warcraft 3 at full speed on my 2nd gen MacBook Pro. I get like 6FPS (literally!). With a 2.16Ghz C2D and 2GB ram (1GB dedicated to Windows) it should be FLYING. Anyone know why?

June 12 2008 at 11:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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