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DESCRIPTION
VMWare Fusion... Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion is the easiest way to switch to Mac, letting you bring all of your Windows applications with you, making the most of your Windows software investment, while providing the perfect safety blanket for the switch.
Break Down the Walls Between Windows and Mac With the powerful Unity feature, VMware Fusion seamlessly integrates your Windows applications with your Mac. Instantly launch Windows applications from any Mac file, the Dock, and more. Minimize Windows applications to the Dock and even quickly switch between Windows and Mac applications with Expose.
Safest Way to Run Windows on the Mac
VMware Fusion makes your Windows-on-Mac experience the safest possible with a suite of features to keep Windows safe and sound. From automated, timed snapshots, to embedded antivirus and antispyware software, VMware Fusion keeps Windows on your Mac sparkling.
Mac-like and User Friendly
Built from the ground up for Mac users, with an obsessive eye towards being a "good Mac citizen" VMware Fusion is the easiest, most Mac-friendly way to run Windows on the Mac. A Mac-first user interface ensures that users get the features they expect, like customizable tool bars, searchable Apple help, Boot Camp support, dock notification integration, and more.
Power to Burn
Based on the most advanced virtualization engine the world has ever known, the result of more than a decade of development, VMware Fusion brings all the power of VMware's enterprise-proven technology to the Mac.
Why Choose VMware Fusion?
Thanks to its superior power, flexibility, and pedigree, VMware Fusion is the right choice for anyone looking to get the most out of their Mac by running Windows applications side-by-side with Mac applications.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0 has over 50 new features and enhancements including:
- Optimized for Snow Leopard. VMware Fusion 3 leverages Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s advanced architecture with a new 64-bit core engine and native support for the 64-bit kernel to deliver an even better Windows on Mac experience.
- Ultimate Windows 7 Experience. VMware Fusion 3 is the FIRST virtualization product for the Mac to provide the full Windows 7 experience, side-by-side with your Mac, complete with Windows Aero and Flip 3D. Run 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 -- it is your choice.
- Switching Made Easy. VMware Fusion 3 makes it easy for users to bring their entire PC to their Mac in a few easy steps -- wirelessly or with a simple Ethernet cable – allowing customers to protect investments in existing Windows software, and to keep using the programs they still need all for the same low price!
- Best-in-Class 3D Graphics. VMware was the first to provide virtual 3D graphics and is the first to support Windows Aero in a virtual machine on the Mac. VMware Fusion 3 is also first to support DirectX 9 Shader Model 3.0 3D graphics and now adds support for OpenGL 2.1 for Windows virtual machines to enable more Windows applications and games.
- Run Windows Apps, The Mac Way. VMware Fusion has been designed from the beginning to make it easy to run Windows apps like Mac apps. VMware Fusion 3 makes it even better with the “Always On” Applications Menu that banishes the Windows Start menu from your Mac and let’s you find and launch Windows apps like Mac apps, even when VMware Fusion is not running. Cycle through open Windows apps with “ command ` ”, quit individual Windows applications with “command q”, and use Dock Exposé with Windows apps.
- Maximum Performance. Finely Tuned. Building on the proven reliability and performance of VMware Fusion 2, the new 64-bit native core engine and 4-way multi-core SMP make VMware Fusion 3 perform even better. In addition, many smaller refinements increase overall performance from better disk and graphics performance on Snow Leopard, improved 2D interactive performance, faster scrolling in Windows applications, faster to enter Unity view, improved application launch times and much more. VMware Fusion 3 is finely tuned to make Windows run even better than before on the Mac.
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
- A copy of Windows (if you'll be installing Windows)
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| Developer: | VMware |
| Downloads: | 155,560 |
| - Version d/l: | 7,018 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Demo |
| Date: | 27 Oct 2009 |
| Platform: | Intel |
| Price: | $79.99 |
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| VMware Fusion User Reviews (115 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 27 2009 |
KAWAII Mate, why do you expect a reply within hours? where do they say that they'll reply within hours? Dear god, get a grip - start complaining if you haven't heard back after a week.
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 | Feb 12 2009 |
WHYTOI Great, love updates from VMware. Just note that the full installer for 2.0.2 with McAfee VirusScan installer is 286Mb while the lite version without McAfee is 187Mb. Both are available on VMware's site. I don't need that extra 100Mb of download.
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| Feb 14 2009 |
MACSOLU Sorry, but I explored VMWare's site and did NOT locate any download that offered Fusion without VirusScan. Please post the URL or direct us to the exact location of this "stripped" download.
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 | Sep 19 2008 |
CPINEIRO51 Great application. The unity feature itself is makes it worth buying. Complete life saver!
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| Sep 18 2008 |
STAINER VMware Fusion 2.0 is simply just great. It has added tremendous value to my workflow. I'd gladly pay for this update - and the fact that VMware made this a free update for 1.*-users, makes it even greater.
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| Oct 27 2009 |
MOELLER3D I tried to upgrade for 40$ from my MU-VMWare Fusion 2, I bought a month ago, it's registered, but they say (OnlineStore): "Our records indicate that you have no eligible registered products to upgrade. To complete your upgrade order, please register a compatible product." When I fill out the SN-Search they say "No data found for the serial number entered." Normally I liked MU-Promos, this seems to be a bit tricky!
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| Oct 27 2009 |
HPUNKT Same here. I had registered two licences of 2.0.5 from the MacUpdate Promo at vmware.com.
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| Oct 27 2009 |
BONOBO Same here. I've filed a support request at vmware.com and am now waiting for a reply.
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| Oct 27 2009 |
Would you be so kind to post the result of your support query once you get an answer?
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| Oct 27 2009 |
MISHA We're investigating this, folks, this shouldn't be an issue-- sorry for the mix-up.
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| Oct 27 2009 |
thanks for your help
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| Oct 27 2009 |
GRONKOWSKI I had the same problem with the web ordering site. I sent an email to Customer Service about 8 hours ago, without a reply. The initial reviews of the release are good, but I would think the developer would be more responsive for a sale.
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| Oct 27 2009 |
I also have problem with this upgrade. Please check with VMware about this problem. First they supplied the old version 1.0 keys for the 2.0.5 software, now they cannot find registration numbers.
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| Oct 27 2009 |
SALTEDGREENS I have this problem to....
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| Oct 27 2009 |
BONOBO OK, good to know that Misha of Macupdate (had to check your profile before I understood your comment ;-)) and team are investigating. I'm sure things will work out. I'll try to be patient for a while, and I'll let you know if/when I get a reply from VMware. Greetings, Tom in Germany
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| Oct 28 2009 |
BONOBO OK, now all is well. 1. I found this link http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11004 further above here, that was a workaround with free trial # provided by the VMware folks. 2. I read another comment telling that upgrade purchase procedure now worked well for him. 3. Tried to purchase upgrade and it worked, I purchased the upgrade, got my license # and installed. All is well now. Thanks, folks. Greetings, Tom
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| Sep 26 2009 |
LIBERTYFORALL1776 This versions STILL does not support the 10.6 64-bit kernel, further, the app itself is not 64-bit. :-(
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| Apr 3 2009 |
MARUKO DRINKING TEAM I have to agree that VMWare has proven to be the most stable way to virtualize Windows, Linux, and OpenSolaris. I too own Parallels, and have had it crash many times, including freezing the whole Mac. I've not had that experience with VMWare. (Nor with the free VirtualBox, but that is still too primitive for me to really use much, so it's hard to judge.) Especially under heavy load, VMWare Fusion shines. At work I currently run a 2009 Mac Pro (Nehalem), with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM. On this hardware, in addition to Mac OS X 10.5 as my normal boot OS, I keep four VMs running: Ubuntu Linux 8.04, OpenSolaris 2008.11, Windows 7 beta, and Windows XP. Each VM has 1 or 2 cores and 2GB of RAM. Normally I keep the VMWare hidden as I go about my work, but at some point in most days I need to call up each of the guest OSes for some specific task. Performance is excellent and it runs great for weeks on end, until I need to reboot the machine for some reason. For me, VMWare is a killer app. (One hint: in prefs, choose to optimize Mac OS X app performance over VM disk performance. This makes a really big difference in keeping your system performing well if you do most of your work in Mac OS X but like to leave VMs running.)
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| Oct 27 2009 |
MACHUB Trying to update my valid VMware Fusion since a few hours now - NIL success (Initially it didn't even recognize my valid serial number. Now I hit an error page after logging in and entering the serial number to be upgraded. Senseless !!! :-(((
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| Oct 27 2009 |
WEBMOTIVA Wow! Simply perfect. Congratulations, developers!
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| May 6 2009 |
MRGANDO Okay, I'm a Software Developer and also a Computer Science Student. VMware Fusion has worked wonders for me for doing database work in Windows environments, Installing Oracle, SQLServer and working with those via Visual Studio 2008 has been really easy and flawless for me, I'm not doing that kind of stuff anymore, but I would really recommend VMWare Fusion to do so. Currently I have a MacBook 2007 ,2ghz, 3GB RAM. And use a windows XP VM from time to time with 800 MB allocated to it. Fusion has worked wonderfully for me, I remember trying to achieve this on parallels 3, it was SO slow, migrated to Fusion and my problems where over. If you develop multi platform ( Linux, Windows, Mac OS X ), I think Fusion is what transforms my MacBook in a Software developer Swiss Army Knife, making it a flexible machine to work in multiple Operating Systems, with the core of the stable OSX Leopard. If you're like me, this is your software. | |
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