VMware Fusion 3.0: Take 2

Anyone know how to disable/turn off the damned menu bar while in full screen? I use full screen because I don't WANT extraneous crap showing (including using auto-hide to move panels/docs/taskbars off screen) -- I don't understand why people think this is such a neat feature!

Please, anyone know how to kill it?

I gave VMware Fusion 3.0 a try for the first time today on a 27" iMac running Snow Leopard. Without any problems VMware Fusion 3.0 installed Ubuntu 9.04 from a CD with the Ubuntu ISO on it using the VMware's Easy Install feature. The VMware Tools installed automatically (don't follow the forum instructions you won't need them). Everything is running great, EXCEPT for the download speed while running the Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager and Update Manager in the VM. Download speeds are SLOW. I've switched between NAT and Bridged networking in the VM setup, no difference. Using Firefox seems fine but the slow download speed while trying to download packages make it unusable.

Does anyone know what is going on with the download speed when trying to download packages? Switching to 2 CPU's instead of 1 also doesn't help the IO. -thanks

I purchased the VMware Upgrade for $39.99. While it's a solid product, I wish I had simply bought Parallels which is selling for about the same amount on Amazon right now. I think $39.99 is way too much to charge for this upgrade which has nice improvements but nothing I gotta have. Others thinking of upgrading should consider downloading the free trial of Parallels and trying it before you send $40 on this. Too greedy Vmware and now I am going to sample the competition.

I used their website to upgrade and get the new key, before downloading the new version and upgrading... went easy peasy late yesterday afternoon.

thanks for posting the link for the student discount, i never knew about it.

Still trying to get it to 'register' my 2.0 s/n so I can upgrade, somebody really dropped the ball here.

Also, I note that it promises significant speedups under 10.6 WITH A NEW INSTALL OF XP (or Win7), am I going to have to reinstall my VM to get all the benefits of 3.0?

Well I've got an Oct. '08 MBP with 2.53 GHz and 4GB RAM and I can't get Vista to give me a base score above 1.0. I've got 3D acceleration turned on, and I'm using the faster graphics card on the Mac. Can my computer not handle it?

I live in Fusion all day long and throughout the 2.x branch, guest performance went downhill, so I would always go back to 1.1.3 after trying to live with a 2.x build for a few days. Then came Snow Leopard and rendered 1.1.3 and all but the latest builds of 2.x useless. So, I hopped on the 3.0 beta and was somewhat happy as its performance was slightly better than 2.x, but not quite on par with 1.1.3. Then my vmdk became corrupt. I am now back on Leopard with 1.1.3 and am very happy that I have guests that perform to my satisfaction. I guess my MBP2,2 w/ 4GB RAM is showing its age.

Does anyone know howto manually configure the vmnet adapters under VMWare Fusion 3? The old method as in Fusion V2 doesn't work any longer.

I had the same problems not receiving the new serial number when I upgraded yesterday morning. However, I was able to log into my account on VMWare's site and get the new number there immediately. I too am a little underwhelmed with the performance. While my expectations may be unreasonable, I thought I'd at least be able to play COD 1 through Steam on my Unibody Macbook 2.4 with 4 gbs of RAM (XP on BootCamp partition imported into a VM). Not an option however as the low frame rates make it unplayable. I tried several different configurations of CPUs and memory and turned the game down to the lowest settings but no luck. As always, XP does boot faster into Fusion than BootCamp so there is at least that advantage.