Feature Poll - Your wishlist for Fusion 1.x

[aanhorn]

RC1 may be considered "feature complete", but there are still features many of us are hoping can be implemented -

my wishlist -

OpenGL support[/b] (pretty pretty please)

multiple snapshots with snapshot manager

ability to automatically remount boot camp partition after use

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What's on your wishlist?

[alexcoulson]

Horizontal Scroll

\- Would be nice if the vmware mouse driver supported the mighty mouse horizontal scroll

Hover Activation (or click pass-through) of VMware (as an option?)

\- esp. for fullscreen mode (when second monitor in use) + unity, in the same way as you don't have to give the dock/menubar focus in osx before it will accept a click - would again be \*nice* if the start button or just windows in general didn't require two clicks to respond (when vmware isn't the active application)

[aanhorn]

bumpage

[Manatee932]

For the next upgrade after the release of 1.0, I'd like support for DX9+ so I don't have to see Vista in battleship gray.

More speed is always welcome if they make some clever discovery that helps in that area.

Fusion already does pretty much exactly what I want.

[lmcmulle]

I think there is a need for at least 2 native OS X products. Fusion for folks who want or need to run windows apps. And this product needs to be designed from the get go to do that beautifully. With full unity, 3d gaming, and everything else you can think of...

AND THEN...

we need VMWare Workstation / Server for OSX. for folks who actually need to build / run whole virtual networks / software stacks / appliances on their machines. and this baby needs to support ENTERPRISE operating systems Redhat / Solaris / Windows Server. Cause frankly, as an OS X user, I could give a fig about Vista (it ain't got anything we haven't had for 5 years), but the ability to run a Solaris WIS server ready to run install right out of the box. Now you got my heart pumping.

[junkshow]

Parallels 3 has a neat feature where they mount the BootCamp partition in MacOS as a network drive when the VM is running, so the MacOS still has access to all the contents of that partition. That is the only thing I've seen in Parallels that I really will miss in VMWare.

[mirkok]

1. Stability

2. Stability

3. Stability

The last thing I want to see happen is for Fusion to

chase the "Parallels Feature List". I've used

Parallels for over a year on my Week 2 MacBook, I

think it is a good program when it runs, I'm glad I

bought it. But on my standard machine with a pretty

standard XP VM, it only boots successfully two out of

three times. The Parallels developers seem keener on

adding new features rather than improving the

stability of what they have. In my experience even

though Fusion has yet to have a general release it is

far more stable than Parallels v2.5. As such I've

already pre-ordered.

Competition, don't you just love it...

I could not agree more. I was a happy Parallels customer, and completely made the switch to Fusion. It runs my XP and Ubuntu, it boots fast, and it just works.

Parallels 3 keeps crashing, and you only get it to boot eventually when you turn off all the new "features".

[dkwehe]

I agree with the stability part, but Fusion still lags behind Brand X in terms of response speed. I tried both and the difference is quite noticeable. If this gets reversed, there will undoubtedly be a large group of switchers.

dkw.

[mirkok]

On my machine/setup it is quite the opposite:

Fusion operating my BootCamp is much more responsive than Parallels, and that is not only the virtualization app, but the whole Mac!

For the Linux VM's the difference is less pronounced, but there the Tools integration of Fusion is superior.

[SMB1]

So share out your disk or attach to the hidden disk shares that windows creates by default. Thats all Parallels does, it just does it automatically. You could write an Applescript to attach to the share only when you need it.

If you like this, it's not something you have to give up.

[erichtn]

That's not all[/i] Parallels does, though. The new release also has a feature that allows you to read and write Windows (NTFS) disks without running the Windows VM. I think they're using MacFUSE or something similar to accomplish this.

[VTMac]

They are indeed using FUSE and as this is open source / freeware, you could use it with Fusion as well. What's less clear is if they are doing any special synchronization that ensure a activity from the mac side won't collide with activity from the VM. I don't know for sure, but frankly I doubt they do anything.

[anarkhos]

Use less memory if possible. The release candidate is a lot better in this respect.

[macmanny]

Hey, hey, we need to discuss Fusion and tell VMware what we'd like to see added to Fusion. It might not be added yet in 1.0, but if we so called "bug" them enough I'm sure they will add much needed features. Parallels Desktop for Mac has so many more features, but Fusion is more stable. Unity in Fusion is a great feature to have but many would argue that it's a rip off of coherence in Desktop for Mac, but with that said Parallels has more features to go along with coherence. Fusion should focus on stability for 1.0 but as far as 1.2 they should add smart search and an explorer to unity like that of coherence in Parallels as they are two features that greatly adds to the merge of Windows and Mac. They should also focus on speed in unity mode to help bring it up to near native speed, but as far as other features, they are very unnecessary for a 1.2 version and more inline for a 2.0 version.

[aanhorn]

1.0 is out, so . . . bump.

[krmathis]

My wishlist for Fusion 1.x:

1. Stability on par with version 1.0

2. Speed improvements (especially graphics)

3. Retain state of suspended Virtual Machine on resume (Unity / Single Window / Full Screen)

4. Cross Platform Unity (Linux / FreeBSD / Solaris / Netware)

5. Snapshot Manager

6. Display status (Running / Suspended / Off) in "Virtual Machine Library"

7. DirectX 9 support

[EMoShunz]

Absolutely love to see the Unity feature available for all guest OSes, (K,X)Ubuntu especially.

It'd also be nice to see a Unity feature (or whole Fusion product) available for all Host OSes.

OpenGL support a biggy. And of course DX10.

[enucho]

I am a novice at both Mac and Fusion. My wish list is therefore more modest than the others I have read.

1. I have installed Wndows XP in this VM and will not be installing others.

2. I would like that Windows XP operate faster and with less flickering and so on (that last point is cosmetic, I think)

3. I would like to be able to allow another account user on the same machine to use Winows XP as well, without going through all sorts of hoops to achieve this. I have been trying to do this, but even with the instruction I have received, I am not able to do it.

EN

[Rzn8tor]

Support for forward/back buttons in VMware Pointing Device.

[walterwatts]

Puuuuhleeeeze give us a GUI route to this (both on and off):

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Customizing the virtual machine's mouse settings for playing games

Most games require some custom mouse settings to work correctly. These settings lock the mouse to the virtual machine when you are running a game. Note: these settings will affect the performance of the mouse and disable the ability to move the mouse between the virtual machine and your Mac. The setting in the user's preference file will also prevent the use of the drag-and-drop feature from all virtual machines to the host machine. Remove the settings to revert back to default behavior.

To customize the virtual machine's mouse settings for playing games, use TextEdit to make the following changes while the virtual machine is powered off:

• In the virtual machine directory, add the following line to the end of the virtual machine's configuration (.vmx) file:

vmmouse.present = "FALSE"

• In your home directory, add the following line to the end of the file ~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences:

pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"

These configuration settings do not take effect until you shut down the virtual machine, quit VMware Fusion, and then restart VMware Fusion and the virtual machine.

[ColdAtom]

Hi,

1) stability and versions without bugs (that is what makes Fusion better than parallels!)

2) Full DirectX 8.1 support (games such as Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Jade Empire and Battlefield 2 should run !) and DirectX 9.0c support.

3) OpenGL support