Are there any successes out there?

[dfort]

Going through all the threads flying around on the new version it seems this release could be considered a disaster. I purchased v3 upgrade anticipating installing, but I'm probably going to hold off for now .. I haven't read anything positive yet. I know product forums tend to attract the problems and complaints and people happily running a product tend not to post much if at all.

So my question... Is there anyone running v3 with out any problems? Is it running better or at least the same as v2?

[woodmeister]

Had success with all the following:

Imac9.1, 2.66 GHz, 4 Gig RAM, GeForce 9400, OSX 10.6.1

--Windows7/32 bit working with full Aero functionality in both 32 bit and 64 bit mode. Very responsive although

in 64 bit host mode, things get occasionally mildly choppy?

--Windows XP SP3 no problems at all. Actually, boots faster that with 2.0.6. Shut down still somewhat slow.

However, I had recently run windows updates and seemed that the slow down happened after that back with 2.0.6

--Fedora 9 /32 bit VM's. Loaded VMware tools on one and it wiped out xorg.conf. Replaced it with the old copy

and everything was fine except dynamic resizing not working. It just enlarges a fixed desktop size. The other Fedora 9

VM updated with no issues and worked fine, including dynamic resizing. Not sure what the difference was since both have

the same kernel version.

Macbook4.1 2.4 GHz, 4 Gig RAM, GMA x3100, OSX 10.6.1

--No issues with XP on that machine

--Windows7 works fine but no Aero, but not surprised at that.

Starting tomorrow, will be going back to doing actual work with the VM's and find out if there are any deep hidden

bugs when I start using my actual work applications.

PS. when it comes to ciphering the problems posted on forums like these and trying to make a decision the think

to focus on is are there individual issues that have a lot of activity or are the a smorgasbord of different issues.

Then decide if those are issues that affect you. That is what I did to decide whether to go to Snow Leopard.

With Fusion3, I just said I'll be a guinea pig and just Carbon Copy Cloned my machines so I could get back

to where I started. I always say you can't have enough back up!!! Plus, hard drives are cheap these days.

[dfort]

Thanks for the replies so far everyone.

Jinker and BillPennock, I don't consider you having hijacked my thread. It didn't get out of hand and I expected some stories that had some issues and problems. There are numerous threads with all sorts of problems and I wanted to get the other side of the story; but I'll take some of the bad with the good.

I haven't been able to pinpoint very many common problems other than slowness, network and maybe registration issues. (VMware portal aside). I did end up purchasing the upgrade today but I think I may just sit on it for a little while longer and see if things calm down.

And Woodmeister, I agree, forums tend to be the collection point for people to bring their complaints and problems. It's small percentage that jump on the forum to tell people how well something is working. I guess that's what I'm trying to do here; hear what's working for people so I can gauge my risk when upgrading to the new version.

[jamesp347]

v3 has been a total success for me.

I have a MBP w/10.6.1 OS X and my prior install of Windows XP carried over during the upgrade without a hitch. Had to do the vmware tools upgrade, no issues.

Installed my Win 7 OS and it runs perfectly. Aero and all.

I am very pleased with everything, although why did they bury the 'Pass Power Supply' option under 'Advanced' and 'Options' ? I had to track this down to enable it so my Win 7 would know when it was on battery and on power supply.

Other then that, v3 is great.

James

[Gangee]

Yes.

I installed 3.0, it's running fine. Installing the Tools was a little iffy, it always is. But other than that, no problems.

Another guy in my office installed 3.0, same results.

So far, so good.

For me, it feels snappier.

[ValH]

I am generally fine on a Snow Leopard MPB @ 3.06Ghz with 256G SSD. License failed, but expect that will get resolved and temp one is fine for now.

I had V2, running Win 7 RC. Upgraded to GA in that, and then installed Fusion 3. No issues. CPU at idle is about 7%. Aero is fine. I don't do games, but all the basic functions work (resize, devices, copy in/out).

Only niggledy tech issue is that in Unity my App Menu is empty.

[ColoradoMarmot]

Up and running, converted several VM's (from 98 through Win7) - all work better, faster, and less footprint than before, after upgrading VMWare tools. Not all OS versions auto-upgraded, so if you don't see it, run it manually.

All in all, well done!

10.6.1, Mid 2009 MBP

[foxynet]

Working fine and running faster than 2.0.6 for me.

MacBook 5,1 w/ 10.5.8

MacMini w/ 10.6.1

Guests are ESXi, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (much better for ESXi)

[akeiler]

Well, apart from the ongoing chaos getting a valid license key I was rather pleased yesterday (used the temporal license in the meantime).

Installed 3VMs on my MBP (13.3/2.53C2D/4GB): Ubuntu 9.04, Vista Home Premium and Win XP XP3 - everything went rather smoothly. I was also rather impressed that I can watch an HD movie inside the Ubuntu VM stutter free without problems.

[Ruske]

Of course there are successes!

I consider Fusion 3 a success, though I'm probably not pushing the envelope much running XP SP2... but it's on an early MBP 2.16GHz with 2G RAM, so I'm not running the latest and greatest hardware out there, either. Performance is definitely improved over Fusion 2, and I'm liking the new features I'm still exploring; they make Unity much easier to work with. There's still the Unity/Exposé issue, but it's nothing I'm losing sleep over.

Support forums are populated by people having trouble and looking for answers, as you've already noted. Considering that the volume of the response to Fusion 3 was enough to gum up VMWare's servers, I wouldn't take the number of posts here as an indication that Fusion 3 is a failure.

[neilio]

Yup, upgraded a number of vms (2 Windows XP, one Windows 7) with no major problems. Windows 7 complained about activation, but that's to be expected.

[cjtinkle]

Fusion 3 and Windows 7 (64bit) running absolutely fabulous for me, on both iMacs. It's SO much faster!

[wila]

Hi,

I've also been part of the tech preview program just like another person replied down here\. The update to the final 3.0 version was flawless as expected.

My impression is that it is a very stable release.

During the last month of the tech preview there were not that many complaints in the private forum at all and we did get a new version.

The number of complaints down here in the forum just give you an idea of the shear amount of people rushing out to get the new Fusion 3 release.

On every release of software there's always problems reported as there will be people with hardware defects, broken virtual machines for other reasons as the upgrade, people failing to reboot after the update and a variety of features they don't like. Then there was the distribution problem with the license keys which is worked around now with the temporary licenses.

FWIW I've been running the tech preview since June, day in, day out and never had a stability issue with it.

Hope this helps,

--

Wil

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[arbi]

During the last month of the tech preview there were not that many complaints in the private forum at all and we did get a new version.

Roughly how many testers were participating in the "private forums"?

[dfort]

Thanks for all the responses; good to see there are happy people out there with the new version. I know forums like this serve as a good place to resolve issues which is why after all the onslaught of problems and issues I wanted to hear, and figured other would as well, that the new version is working well for people.

I'll probably upgrade over the weekend. For those that have upgraded successfully did you just install ver 3 over 2.06 or did you uninstall first?

[cjtinkle]

I did a clean install of Fusion 3, and a clean install of Windows 7 as well, rather than upgrade either.

[Ruske]

I upgraded 2.06 beta with no issues.

[brucoder]

Mine was an upgrade on both systems. The MBP was a prerelease test

machine, the iMac was the release 3.0 over the 2.0.6.

[wila]

Hi,

I don't have numbers as I don't work for VMware, but my estimate on the amount of replies over the months, would be that there was a few hundred testers.

It certainly was more as a handful of people.

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Wil

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VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

[WilliamReid]

From my experience, this is from having 2 copies of the Fusion application and launching the old version triggers this message.

Some users accidently copy the Fusion application to the dock, and after a reinstall they are still launching Fusion from the old dock version.

Try removing the old one and launching the Fusion application located in the "Applications" folder.

[Mudshark1]

I'm a long-time user of Parallels, and, for the most part, have been very satisfied - until I upgraded to OSX 10.6.x. Although Snow Leopard has been performing very well for the majority of my apps, Parallels has has suffered; almost "crawling" and I'm now getting "low or out of memory" issues (I was able to successfully run 3 VMs without issue before upgrading the OS).

With the release of Fusion 3, I decided to go for the 30-day trial (I attempted to use Fusion 1.x many moons ago, but found it "kludgy" and unfriendly, so I opted for Parallels).

I've been doing a "side-by-side" comparison of Parallels 4 and Fusion 3. For the most part, I'm finding Fusion 3 very easy to implement and use. Memory management is great (I'm running a MacBook, 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM). I have NO problem running 3 VMs in Fusion 3 on their own VLAN. All is well...

EXCEPT: I am unable to "ping" from my "host Mac" to any of the VMs (See: How do I set up Fusion so I can ping from my Mac to a vm?). This is VERY important to me, as this is a requirement for my job (Parallels had no problem with this, but it seems Fusion does). If someone could explain how this is accomplished in Fusion, I'd greatly appreciate it (btw, I'm no dummy when it comes to networking - but this is very frustrating)!

If this can't be done, then it looks like I'm stuck with Parallels. My company is a EMC/VMWare "partner" and it would make sense for me to use Fusion.