With Fusion, you can use both at the same time. The application is intended to complement Apple's Boot Camp solution by eliminating the need to reboot your Mac whenever you want to access Windows. You'll be able interact with Windows applications like Mac apps: view them in Expose, in the Launchpad or Mission Control.Īnother worth mentioning advantage of using VMWare Fusion is that you can connect Windows-only devices to your Mac and use them as though you were on your PC. This is made possible thanks to the Unity mode view, which provides a fully integrated experience. What's more, you can also launch Windows apps right from your Dock, without seeing Microsoft's environment. ![]() Moreover, VMWare Fusion offers the possibility to run Windows in a separate window, but you can also run Windows in the full screen view that displays only the Windows desktop. Fusion is designed for both casual users and professionals who want a fast, simple and reliable virtual machine alternative. The VMWare Fusion app is easy-to-install and you will be able to get your Windows up and running in a snap. VMWare Fusion is a commercial and affordable software application that enables you to seamlessly run Windows operating systems (from XP and up) on top of your Mac's hardware resources. Several popular solutions to run Windows on a Mac exist, such as Apple's Boot Camp partition, and the virtual machine launchers VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Registration is required before downloading, and commercial licenses cost $149 ($79 upgrade) for the Player version, or $199 ($99 upgrade) for a more fully featured Pro license, which can also be used across three machines.In a digital world dominated by the Windows operating system, macOS users are sometimes forced or want to use some Windows-only applications on their Mac. ![]() VM Fusion Player 12.0 and VM Workstation Player 16.0 are available now as free-for-personal-use downloads for Mac and Windows/Linux respectively. They also now support APFS support for installing Mac guests via the recovery partition, and will support macOS 11.0 Big Sur on its release. The chief highlight for home Mac users is clearly the addition of VM Fusion Player, a free entry-level version of Fusion for personal use that supports the creation and deployment of VMs, containers, and Kubernetes clusters.įusion Player and Pro both now support eGPUs, allowing Mac users with external graphics to offload graphics rendering to these devices as opposed to their Mac’s built-in graphics solution. Mac users can now install VM Fusion Player for personal use to gain free access to VMware. Guests also gain support for the latest Windows 10 and major Linux OS updates. Workstation users also gain a new Dark Mode feature that seamlessly integrates with the host’s dark mode settings in Windows 10. Linux hosts gain support for the Vulkan Rendering Engine on PCs running integrated Intel GPUs. ![]() VM Workstation can now co-exist happily with Hyper-V mode in the latest (2004) build of Windows 10. They also come with the usual tweaks to improve performance (particularly in the fields of VM operations and file transfers), plus added support for virtual USB 3.1 devices. Naturally, the latest version of VMware Workstation plays nicely with the latest versions of OSes including Ubuntu 20,04.īoth products also gain the ability to run, build, push or pull OCI containers using VMware’s command-line vctl tool alongside the added support for Kubernetes.īoth Workstation and Fusion virtual machines are also now capable of supporting up to 32 virtual CPUs, 128GB RAM and 8GB VRAM. Support for Windows DirectX 11 apps and games has also been added to virtual machines. Mac users gain a free ‘player’ version of VMware Fusion for personal use, while both products gain support for Kubernetes clusters, allowing users to run multiple app containers at once in specialised 'nodes'. VMware has released major updates to its virtualisation software products in the form of VM Workstation 16.0 for Windows and Linux, plus VM Fusion Player 12.0 for Mac.
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