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Mikero
Community Manager
Community Manager

Fusion's Future

Hi everyone,

As we're winding down the year, planning is well underway for the next big releases of Fusion and Fusion Pro.

With me being new to the role of being responsible for the entirety of the Fusion experience, all the way from initial awareness to buying, using and getting support, I'm working on a multi-year plan of how we're going to take Fusion into the future.

I personally think it would be wrong of me to do this without hearing from our users and the community.  I've always wanted to do right by our users, and I hope that giving you a forum to voice your thoughts underscores our commitment to 'do the right thing'.

The world has been changing since Apple first brought OS X to x86, allowing us to do this amazing thing called Virtualization. But with changing times people are using Fusion for a variety of different reasons that we may not have originally thought of.

So, I'd like to use this thread as a forum to get direct feedback from you on what you think Fusion could do next.

Let's hear about how you use Fusion and what else might help make that experience even better.

Let's hear about what Fusion doesn't do today that would make your lives easier.

Let's hear about what Fusion does that drives you crazy!

Do you deploy Fusion en-masse in the office? What can we do better for this use case? (and did you know about Horizon FLEX??)

Do you build software using Fusion? How can we make that a more productive and joyful experience?

Lastly, I just want to say thank you to all of our users.  It's been a great year for us, and for me personally. I'm immensely proud of what the team here has been able to deliver over the years, and we couldn't be more excited to take things to the next level with you by our side.

Happy Holidays!

-Mike

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
81 Replies
vmxmr
Expert
Expert

There's no lines here... Just saying it's more complicated than simply building it. Someone could invest hundreds of dev hours in drivers only to have Apple not let them be on the whitelist.

Obviously VMware would want to get assurances that Apple would sign the drivers before VMware invests engineering effort into developing them. At the same time, if I were VMware, I would not want to be left out if a competitor had already started that process. The bottom line is that there is no way to know what VMware is doing, because they would never admit to getting any assurances from Apple, in case VMware cannot bring the drivers to fruition.

ColoradoMarmot
Champion
Champion

Ahh, gotcha.

No abstraction layer, and because they have a closed ecosystem, no incentive to support alternate hardware.