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VMware Fusion 2.0.5 update squashes bugs, adds 10.6 support
VMware Fusion has now been updated to version 2.05. The release number is Build 173382. It is a free update to all Fusion 1 and Fusion 2 owners. The update includes:
- Support for Mac OS X Server guest operating systems with Intel Xeon 5500 and 3500 series processors
- Experimental support for Snow Leopard Server as a guest OS (32 bit only)
- Experimental support for Snow Leopard as a host OS (32 bit only)
- Reduces CPU usage when a VM is idle
- Contains more than 80 bug fixes
Thanks to Martin for the tip
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dagamer43 said 4:52PM on 6-25-2009
They still haven't fixed the 10.5.7/ATI graphics card issue. =/
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Tom said 5:09PM on 6-25-2009
From their forums, it sounds like the graphics issue is something ATI and Apple will need to fix with an OS update.
Plecostomus said 9:40PM on 6-25-2009
The update appears to disable the Topsites and Coverflow features in Safari 4 for Windows on my iMac with ATI 2600 graphics. I didn't think of this consequence when I updated from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5. The features worked in 2.0.4.
At this point, I reinstalled 2.0.4 and reinstalled Quicktime and Safari, but have not been able to get the Safari features working again. My current thought is that it is due to the associated VMWare Tools update, which I don't see how to revert except by going to a backup.
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Pepijn Bruienne said 9:36AM on 6-26-2009
The VMware Tools are listed in the Add/Remove Programs control panel. Simply remove them, let it reboot and reinstall the 2.0.4 Tools. That should take care of it -- if indeed they are to blame for your Safari issues.
Plecostomus said 12:19PM on 6-26-2009
@Pepijn Bruienne: Thanks; that probably would have worked. I did revert to a backup and solved the problem. The Safari 4 features are working again under Fusion 2.0.4.
The obvious symptom was when Safari 4 came up, it showed a page saying, Safari can’t open “topsites://” because Microsoft Windows doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “topsites:”.
There are posts in the Apple discussion forums about people getting this message on physical Windows computers. It is related to this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3410
And this, from the Fusion 2.0.5 release note:
"Because enabling 3D acceleration on Macs running Mac OS X 10.5.7 with ATI chipsets might cause VMware Fusion to fail, 3D acceleration is disabled in VMware Fusion 2.0.5 on Macs running Mac OS X 10.5.7 with ATI chipsets. You can re-enable this setting when new ATI drivers with the fix are available."
Steve McKenna said 10:44PM on 6-25-2009
I'm using the Snow Leopard Preview and I find Fusion is a lot more responsive and the memory footprint seems smaller....
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Badapple18 said 10:56PM on 6-25-2009
Will it fix my clock messing up everytime i boot into vmware then back to bootcamp and then into osx
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Rob Roark said 1:03AM on 6-26-2009
Your notes are wrong, according to VMWare's Release notes page, it supports Snow Leopard SERVER as a guest operating system, not the client version.
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ViRGE said 5:29AM on 6-26-2009
This is a minor technicality. Officially, only Mac OS X Server is licensed for virtualization. Regular versions of Mac OS X are not licensed for virtualization.
Rob Roark said 2:33PM on 6-26-2009
And Fusion is smart enough to check the install disc/dmg and make sure its in fact the server OS, making it less a minor technicality and a, albeit completely reasonable and justified, physical limitation in the software.