VMware updates Fusion to 2.0.1

It's not as big a jump as an upgrade from v3 to v4, but VMware's fetish for releasing upgrades late on Friday continues with the 2.01 build of VMware Fusion, now available for download. The new version's DMG sizes up at a healthy 246 MB, and the list of enhanced features and fixed bugs is reasonably long. Standouts include several improvements to mirrored folder performance and a safety check that pauses snapshot creation when your virtual machine is active.

Version 2.0.1 is a free upgrade for all VMWare Fusion owners. If you spend your Friday night upgrading it (we know you, and we know you will) please let us know how it goes. Note that there is still an incompatibility between Fusion and the CheckPoint SecureClient software noted on the release notes page.

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dionboye

A fab webcam fix: logitech's easycam 9000 didn't play in the last version; but it does now! Well, it does in Win XP; I still can't get it going in Vista.

November 19 2008 at 3:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark S

Unity seems to work now in Red Hat Enterprise 5. Unfortunately, I still get errors with the suspend script in FreeBSD 7. I have to click on suspend a second time before it works.

November 17 2008 at 11:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rickz

just "updated" my 3.0 trial installation. All seems fine. My XP VM runs my work PC image and Cisco VPN, Outlook, McAfee all appear to work fine. I have yet to discover whether the cloned system is still running the installed PointSec encryption that was on the laptop I cloned it from

Vmware Tools update requires a reboot of the PC VM, but it also seems to go fine.

One small nit. After my original Vmware install I had moved the Vmware app to another folder where I keep all my secondary apps, so restarting from "Recent Applications" caused the 2.0 version to be re-run. It complained that it was out of date. Firing up the 2.01 version worked fine - it found the virtual system (which had been suspended) and just carried on.

My next task will be to figure out how to keep the VM and my "real" PC in some state of reasonable sync without a lot of work on my part.

r

November 15 2008 at 11:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

darkg33k

Just curious on reader opinions here... What would make someone want to use VMware vs. Parallels?

November 15 2008 at 10:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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David Pickavant

Anyone know where to download the XP wallpaper used on VMware fusion product boxes and screenshots?

This one: http://www.vmware.com/files/images/screens_fusion/f2/imac_xpsinglewindowcam-lg.jpg

Parallels have started using it too now with their 4.0 release. Have looked everywhere and can't find it.

November 15 2008 at 8:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Brian Sexton

Proper support for Ubuntu 8.10 would be nice; it's all kinds of wonky in VMware Fusion 2 (and on my dedicated Ubuntu system, where the login screen doesn't even appear). For that matter, it would be nice if the menu bar didn't mostly stop responding in full-screen mode while running Ubuntu 8.04 *OR* Ubuntu 8.10. I didn't see the menu bar issue in the release notes, but here's hoping it will be gone after my installation of VMware Fusion is updated.

November 15 2008 at 8:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Pat Lee

Brian,

We updated VMware Tools so they compile and work for Ubuntu 8.10. Ubuntu 8.10 is not officially supported due to lack of time for full qualification and pre-built module.

After running through the installer for Ubuntu 8.10 tools and doing the tools compile, all basic features should work as expected except for the mouse which is an Ubuntu downstream issue.

To resolve the issue with mouse not ungrabbing, run the Ubuntu Update Manager and ensure that you are running with the latest Ubuntu updates which includes the latest vmmouse driver (which we opensourced to add to the distros).

With regards to the menu bar coming down in full screen mode, this is an Apple issue with how they handle their Kiosk mode APIs that there is no way to add a delay on how long to wait to show the menu bar. We will look into a way around this issue in a future major release.

Pat Lee
VMware

November 15 2008 at 9:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

daba

has anyone running ubuntu 8.10 on vmware installed the update? are the 'vmwaretools' installation problems fixed?

November 15 2008 at 1:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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daba

found the answer on vmware support site:

Easy Install doesn't work for Ubuntu 8.10. Ubuntu 8.10 is not officially supported and Easy Install is not available for the guest installation due to the lack of pre-built tools. Perform the standard installation, and install VMware Tools following the Guest Operating System Installation Guide. After VMware Tools is installed, many features should work. If you experience issues with your mouse not ungrabbing, run the Ubuntu Update Manager and ensure that you are running with the latest Ubuntu updates.

November 15 2008 at 1:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

daba

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umijin

What update? It doesn't autoupdate on my copy of VMWare (v2.0).

November 15 2008 at 12:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

vanaheim7

I just updated to 2.0.1 from 2.0 on MacBook. Windows XP Professional is running from the Boot Camp partition. Everything seems fine. VMware tools were installed, too. Uneventful update after seeing a BSOD on my desktop today due to an eSATA card installation was a big relief.

November 15 2008 at 12:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply