What's New in VMware Fusion 4.1

What's New in VMware Fusion 4.1 – (November 17, 2011)

VMware Fusion 4 is packed with more than 15 new features and enhancements

Smart Full Screen

Seamless support for Lion Full Screen
Multiple display users get best of both worlds with Smart Full Screen on Lion
All users get native Mac OS X menu bar with smart delay for full access to any menu bar item
Optional Full Screen Minibar makes full screen management easier with multiple displays

Automatically Start Virtual Machine Option

Add back automatically start virtual machine feature that was removed in VMware Fusion 4

Improved Performance

Faster transitions into Unity are up to twice as fast as VMware Fusion 4
Faster transitions into Full Screen are up to twice as fast as VMware Fusion 4
Snappier animations
Faster screen size changes with Windows 7 (requires Microsoft Hot Fix KB 2522761)
Improved performance starting virtual machines

Improved 2D/3D Graphics

Overall improved performance and correctness with Mac OS X 10.7.2
Support for Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated graphics provides up to 6x performance improvements over VMware Fusion 4 in HTML5 graphics tests
Improved support and correctness for Solidworks 2012

Virtual Disk Management Improvements

Automatically resize NTFS partitions on resized virtual hard disks to take over new space

Mac OS X Virtual Machine Improvements

Support for FileVault 2 encryption in OS X 10.7.2 and later virtual machines
Virtual hard drives now appear as internal hard drives and not external hard drives
Added support for re-installing OS X 10.7 from the Lion Recovery HD
Improved virtual mouse support for OS X 10.7.2 virtual machines
Updated VMware Tools to disable automatic sleep in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 virtual machines

For more details, see the VMware Fusion 4.1 Release Notes at