VMware ships Fusion 3.0

Today is release day for VMware Fusion 3.0. The app has more than 50 new enhancements including:

Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Snow Leopard kernels.
Integrated Migration Assistant guides you through migrating from the PC to a virtual machine.
First virtualization product to support for Windows Aero, including Flip 3D and Aero Peek.
Support for DirectX 9.0EX with OpenGL 1.4 with new WDDM graphics driver.
Greatly reduced memory usage when using Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines and newly created Windows XP virtual machines
Faster disk and graphics performance on Snow Leopard.
Banish the Start Menu with Always-on Applications Menu on the Mac menu bar.
Access to Windows taskbar tray items in Unity view in the Mac menu bar.
Run 3D games and play 1080p video in Unity view.

I started trying to upgrade my copy to 3.0 late last night and into the early morning hours, but the VMware servers insisted I wasn't in the database. I noticed an increasing number of similar complaints on the VMware forums, so I can't tell you about my installation experience, or how it all works with Windows 7.

Stay tuned for more info as we get that sorted out, and hopefully your upgrade experience will be better.

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Adelino

Hi there,
does VM Ware 3 enable me to load an existing boot camp partition with windows 7? Not just importing it, but using at as a virtual machine and as a boot camp partition, still? Like the new parallels is able to?
An answer would be very much appreciated, thanks in advance!

November 02 2009 at 4:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

STNC

How does VMware compare to Parallels

October 27 2009 at 11:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alenm88

i Have an iMac late 2008.. very powerful with dedicated graphics ATI Radeon HD Pro 256MB and i cant make aero work!

Some suggestions?

October 27 2009 at 7:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rvinny

I've been trying the student upgrade all day, no joy.
keeps saying it kind find a registered copy

October 27 2009 at 5:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hanzo

Don't even bother trying to buy it right now. Or get a demo key for that matter.

After spending 40 minutes on hold, I was informed that the license key server is broken and they will try and get serial numbers out in "a day or two, hopefully faster".

This applies to paid and demo keys.

VMWare FTL

October 27 2009 at 3:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David

I am, frankly, quite underwhelmed.

The performance boost brings it up to par with the Parallels 5 Beta. It's good, but not extraordinary.

The little black title bar atop full-screened VM's? It blows. Can I have the regular OS X menu back, please?

The Home entry in my VM selection window got old after about two minutes.

And until they fix AutoCAD in Unity, they won't get a cent from me.

October 27 2009 at 2:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

3 replies to David's comment

Warner

Upgrade pricing is annoying. $39.99 for upgrade and $59.99 for upgrade + 12 month subscription for major releases. Just talked to VMWare's sales staff. There is no guarantee that there will be a major release in 12 months. You'll just be SOL and $20 poorer if they don't have a major release.

October 27 2009 at 2:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeff McClanahan

Website produced errors all morning. Now, the upgrade purchase page is non-responsive. Waiting on hold to try to buy via phone...

October 27 2009 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

acidscan

The upgrade worked for me this morning flawless.

Went to the site, selected Upgrade, added to cart, enter user, password, paid and a new serial number was emailed.

That was at 9:00 am this morning.

October 27 2009 at 1:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

adriaan

this must be the worst online purchase experience ever! the online store crashes with Oracle DB errors.

I thought these guys were trying to become a mission critical cloud player? hell, they cannot even run their own store...

how do you buy the software?

October 27 2009 at 12:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply