Upgrading is not quite as simple, because guests will need new versions of VMware’s tools before previously installed guest VMs are fully usable, but our two un-upgraded ones worked fine without them, initially, in our small sample test. Installation is simple to summarize: fetch a cup of caffeinated beverage after clicking purchase from VMware’s online store. The Pro Version is really about developers, and here, the contrast with recently released Parallels 11 for Mac becomes apparent, as VMware both documents its Fusion features, and offers more-although the features are somewhat poised in the direction of VMware-focused platforms and products.
We actually found the Parallels icons handy, but application launch/use of Windows or Mac apps is perhaps more transparent this way. In either edition, VMware wants to tout the fact that its integration with Windows 10 doesn’t place a VMware logo upon launch icons, as Parallels does. For most civilian use cases, the Standard edition suffices. Fusion8 supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, and is therefore pretty up to date in terms of hosted VM graphics call capabilities.Ĭhoosing the standard edition provides good heterogenous Type 2 hypervisor support for a wide variety of guests, and offers near transparent integration with Windows 10. Whichever base state of CPU allocation, graphics were great, and gamers and those in graphics-intensive positions will likely be satisfied, compared to previous versions of Fusion. We found we needed to bump up Windows 10 share of the CPUs in our test beds. Tale of two versionsįusion 8 places emphasis on graphics-intensive virtualization, although overall processing is slightly less than we’d expected in its default state. Then add in the cost of Windows 10, or a cost-with-support version of Linux.
Then you need the Type 2 Hypervisor app-Fusion, which costs $79.99 for the standard version and $199 for the Pro version. Mac OS X version upgrades are now free, just like most Windows updates. One could alternately boot Windows via a free app supplied by Apple, called Boot Camp, which today doesn’t support Windows 7x. VMware does not follow the subscription model, like competitor Parallel’s For Mac 11, and the total cost of a Window on Mac deployment via Fusion 8 edition is creeping up.Ī few years ago, the price of guesting an operating system was: the Mac, plus perhaps an updated version of Mac OSX.
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