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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dagamer34 said 11:46AM on 6-12-2008
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?
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Forrest said 12:02PM on 6-12-2008
Why play it in a VM when it runs natively?
dagamer34 said 12:07PM on 6-12-2008
I do play it natively but some of the sound codecs that work on Windows don't work on the Mac version. And it's a horrible pain because some of the sounds are really necessary while playing. I hate having to keep a Windows partition up and running just for one game.
And the thing is that I've heard people playing it just fine before on older VMWare versions. Anything before the 2.0 beta would never load the actual application. The 2.0 beta runs super slow.
Sigh.
Scott said 12:28PM on 6-12-2008
Get more RAM, and seriously it runs just fine natively. Sound and all.
Sam said 12:33PM on 6-12-2008
I play War3 natively on my 1st revision macbook pro all the time. It plays way better than on any of my friends' laptops, and with all graphics options turned up and at 1680x1050. Just play natively and it works great. I never have any problem with sounds. Maybe you had a bad install? Make sure to get all of the patches, and remember that you have to install frozen throne before patching.
dagamer34 said 12:51PM on 6-12-2008
Guys, I'm talking about inside a VM in WINDOWS, not natively. The sounds I need don't play natively, but they do play in Windows (just the FPS is 6).
Michael G said 2:40PM on 6-12-2008
dgamer-
on the beta of Fusion, you may have the enable debugging checks option enabled under preferences. Make sure it is not checked, since that may be hurting performance.
Greg said 12:14PM on 6-12-2008
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.
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RazorD said 12:19PM on 6-12-2008
The OS X server thing is utterly awesome. Really happy about that :)
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Miguel said 12:49PM on 6-12-2008
So if OS X server runs in VMware, why not just OS X client?
Tristan OTierney said 1:03PM on 6-12-2008
@miguel It's a licensing issue -- Apple specifically forbids it in the Leopard Client EULA.
Russ said 1:43PM on 6-12-2008
no osx server support on my beta
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jasseml said 3:51PM on 6-12-2008
to virtualize server you must run vmware on a server. works fine for me
Nate said 5:08PM on 6-12-2008
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.
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sylvaticus said 9:04PM on 6-12-2008
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
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