VMware Fusion 3: System Requirements

[#1]

*Minimum System Requirements for VMware Fusion 3 (through VMware Fusion 3.1 update)*

• Any Intel® Mac.

• Minimum 1GB of RAM (2GB RAM recommended)

• 700MB free disk space for VMware Fusion and at least 5GB for each virtual machine

• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later; Mac OS X 10.6 or later (Mac OS X 10.6.3 recommended for best graphics experience)

• Operating system installation media (disk or disk image) for virtual machines

Note: Microsoft Windows Not Included

Recommended graphics hardware for Windows Aero support:

To experience Windows Aero 3D graphics, you will need the following graphics hardware:

• ATI Radeon 2600 or better

• NVIDIA GeForce 8600M or better

See list of VMware Fusion 3 Supported Operating Systems

See list of VMware Fusion 3 Features

[pankajxmathur]

Is Aero supported on a MacBook with on-board Intel Display Adapter ?

I could not get aero to work on my MacBook with VMware Fusion.

[ayeying]

No, according to the requirements listed above, you need an ATi or nVidia card. Intel won't work.

[GreyArt]

Please be aware that the storage minimum is unrealistic. With 3 Gigabytes it is possible to run Fusion without Mac OSX progs running. To use the system freely then 4 Gigs of memory are required. This allows at least two virtual machines to run and several OSX progs.

If there is enough memory available then Fusion works correctly.

[crunchy2]

Nevermind - I reinstalled 3.1 and now it's working! It seems to have been an install hiccup.

[PatToohey]

Is this supported on OS X Lion?

[#7]

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/322035

http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2011/07/os-x-lion-spotted-in-the-wild.html