VMware Fusion 4 Released

Re:VMware Fusion 4 Released by pat2man on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @12:43PM (#2996901)

Fusion and Parallels both are a bit faster than VirtualBox and have more features.

Also, VMWare VMs will work with any VMWare product so if you are working with a team that uses VMWare elsewhere its nice to have.

If you are just trying to run a Windows app or two you are probably better off with VirtualBox since its free.

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Re:VMware Fusion 4 Released by Uchikoma on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:30AM (#2999186)

My reason: I've been using VirtualBox for running dev server environments. What happened: VM shutdowns, without any way to start them again (buttons just gray), files corrupted, interfaces lost, ....

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Re:VMware Fusion 4 Released by evilduck on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @01:51PM (#2997186)

Except for OSX VMs built using Fusion's built-in capabilities. The other VMware products don't ship the required libraries to boot them.

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Re:VMware Fusion 4 Released by yardie on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:47PM (#2997407)

You have to downgrade the vmx to prep a fusion vm to be loaded into esx. Or you can download the vmware convertor app that will transfer the vm, convert the vmx, and register the vm in esx.

I use the application weekly for this task.

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Re:VMware Fusion 4 Released by evilduck on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:39PM (#2998141)

I meant OSX as a guest OS.

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Re:VMware Fusion 4 Released by yardie on Friday September 16, 2011 @03:33AM (#3003532)

For that you'll need a machine with SMC and only Macs have it.

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