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VMware Fusion 2.0.5 update squashes bugs, adds 10.6 support

by Mel Martin Jun 25th 2009 at 4:30PM

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
I applied the update this morning and had no issues. You can get a look at the release notes here. Your Fusion app should update automatically on launch, or you can download the update from the VMware support web site.

Thanks to Martin for the tip

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Rob Roark

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.

June 26 2009 at 1:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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ViRGE

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.

June 26 2009 at 5:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob Roark

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.

June 26 2009 at 2:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Benjamin Poole

Will it fix my clock messing up everytime i boot into vmware then back to bootcamp and then into osx

June 25 2009 at 10:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve McKenna

I'm using the Snow Leopard Preview and I find Fusion is a lot more responsive and the memory footprint seems smaller....

June 25 2009 at 10:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Plecostomus

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.

June 25 2009 at 9:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Pepijn Bruienne

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.

June 26 2009 at 9:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Plecostomus

@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."

June 26 2009 at 12:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dagamer43

They still haven't fixed the 10.5.7/ATI graphics card issue. =/

June 25 2009 at 4:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Tom

From their forums, it sounds like the graphics issue is something ATI and Apple will need to fix with an OS update.

June 25 2009 at 5:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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