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VMware Fusion

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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...

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  • Mac
3.5 / 5 Avg rating (4)
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Top Positive Comment
Nick Scientist
Feb 7, 2023
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The best free option for personal use in the market with a user friendly UI. Parallels is better for Mac OS but this is free so cant argue there.

Top Negative Comment
Mojosam
Jun 9, 2023
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VMware Fusion used to be a great program. Extremely compatible with any guest OS I tried. All of the programs I ran inside of the guest OS acted like they were running on real hardware. My only complaint back then was that tech support was mediocre.

Sadly, this program has turned into a steaming pile. It crashes incessantly. Every 10 or 20 minutes. The added insult is that tech support is now almost non-existent. Everything has to be done in the forum. The search function inside the forum is worthless (It returns articles that contain any word in your search phrase. Good luck searching through 76,000 articles.).

I guess I have to switch to Parallels now.

OmgItsTheSmartGuy
Sep 18, 2011
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On VMWare Fusion 4 and Parallels Desktop 7, running Mac OS X within a virtual machine is now officially supported. You were previously able to do this with Virtualbox (sort of), but there was no official support for it, so the process was really complicated and didn't work too well. On the other hand, installing OS X on VMWare Fusion 4 is totally pain-free. All I needed to do to install Lion with VMWare was select InstallESD.dmg at the new virtual machine prompt. (InstallESD.dmg is a disk image of Lion that can be found by right-clicking the Mac OS X Lion installer app, clicking "Show Package Contents", and going to Contents-SharedSupport.) That was all there was to it. The Lion installer booted without a hitch, sound worked by default, and there are even VMWare tools available for OS X that increase the screen resolution. If only setting up a Hackintosh was this easy.

Parallels Desktop was far less compliant than VMWare. When I tried to install OS X, it told me that only the server version of Lion is supported. Lame...

OmgItsTheSmartGuy
Jul 24, 2011
0

The user interface of VMWare Fusion is far slicker than VMWare Workstation. Fusion is simpler and more intuitive, and it's good on the eyes, too. There should be Windows and Linux versions of this.

What is 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.

VMWare Fusion can also run Linux and macOS.

VMware Fusion information

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    US flagVMware
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $79 and $241.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5
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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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