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Fusion 1.1

Posted by murreyaw Nov 15, 2007

Okay,

I have been running Fusion 1.1 for about a week now. So far its been pretty stable, but I have noticed a couple of bugs.

1.) The UI for Fusion itself seams to die occasionally. When working in Full Screen mode, I noticed that the Ctrl - Open Apple, didn't take me out of full screen. I sent my mouse to the top of the screen, and the menu didn't appear. Other than that, everything else in the VM was functioning. I was able to get back to my Mac Desktop via spaces. I went ahead and Forced Quit of VMWare Fusion. I then restarted it. The VM came right back up and was running like nothing happened. Very wierd, but probably something minor.

2.) Its integration with Time Machine could use some work. Maybe this is more of a Leopard problem, than a VMWare problem. I have a FW 400 drive connected, and during a Time Machine backup, the box gets very sputtery. If I exclude the vmdk it works fine. I would like to get snapshots of the VM files, but today it looks like I am stuck copying my files to the local MAC folder structure.

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Fusion - First Thoughts

Posted by murreyaw Oct 23, 2007

Ok, I bought my first Mac ever last week. I picked up a MacBook Pro 15" with all the trimmings. When I was in the apple store, I played around with their virtualization product and wasn't very impressed. When I ordered my Mac, I went ahead and threw in an order for Fusion. For $60 or whatever it cost me, I didn't think I could go wrong. My Mac came, I installed Fusion and am thoroughly impressed. What a great application. Its everything that VMWare Workstation is, plus more. Running XP on my Mac is working out great. I don't have to worry about buying any MS Office for Mac products. I can work in Outlook, and not have to mess with using Exchange with Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage. It all in all rocks. The only issue that I have is with the Unity feature set. It isn't quite there, but I am sure that by version 2.0 they will make running Windows apps as seamless as firing off Mac apps.

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