Fusion for Apple Silicon Ideas Ideas

3D Graphics Acceleration?

bfranco991 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:46:33 GMT

Forgive me for being naive (or dense or any other adjective) but are there plans for including 3D graphics acceleration in the next fusion iteration for Apple Silicon? My use case is in 3D CAD programs (mostly SolidWorks) and though it's bearable to run on my M1 Max MacBook, I would absolutely love to take advantage of the 32 core GPU for 3D Modeling.

Expand checks for proper permissions on directories at Fusion launch

Technogeezer — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:23:28 GMT

There have been a rash of incidents lately where Fusion failures are related to improper permissions on directories (in particular there have been way too many errors related to incorrect permissions on /private/tmp) that Fusion is looking to write into. This usually has resulted in the broken pipe 14 errors. The fix for this is relatively simple, but the ordinary user does not have the experience to review logs to determine if broken permissions are the cause of this error.

Could Fusion be enhanced to check at the time of the UI launch for proper permissions on directories that it's looking to write into (in particular, /tmp or /private/tmp)? Responding with an error that something's amiss at this point with an intelligent error message gives the user a chance to address it properly (before endless attempts and frustrations from trying to run a VM with the chance of the broken pipe error).

Running intel binaries in linux vm's with rosetta

Marshalleq — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:57:11 GMT

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_intel_binaries_in_linux_vms_with_rosetta

Could this be integrated?

Bundled uninstaller application within the product

Technogeezer — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:10:03 GMT

Given the proliferation of files outside of the application bundle that Fusion relies on, simply dragging the Fusion app to the trash is not a sufficient uninstallation process.

Fusion needs an uninstaller application that has an option to fully remove these support files and vestiges of older Fusion releases that are now manual processes in a KB article.

As a side note, the Fusion installation and upgrade process needs to be more robust. I've answered too many questions here in the forum where the solution has been "uninstall and reinstall" because something is wonky after an installation or upgrade.

One Click Windows ARM deployment

bmwnyrich — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:03:24 GMT

Include a one-click deployable Windows ARM image similar to Parallels.

eGPU tb4/pci path-trough on M1 if it's posible

rootstas — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:01:28 GMT

Wizard VM creator with OS auto-downloader as one of steps

rootstas — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:58:59 GMT

Bring support OpenGL 4+ & DirectX 11/12 for Windows On ARM Guest

rootstas — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:55:53 GMT

144hz

gideon99 — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:39:38 GMT

Be able to set 144 Hz in the guest OS

RaspberryPi Guest

DavidHickman21 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:57:04 GMT

Support for running the ARM64-bit RaspberryPi OS as a guest VM

Ability to import VMs from Parallels for apple silicon

invisible31 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:34:19 GMT

Support Container with Gui

GanYS — Wed, 04 May 2022 07:35:44 GMT

The Container is very pop now, to do a Container with Gui, like Synology's docker, it‘s can do this: down/run/star/stop/del. In workstation 16 and fusion 12, have vctl too,but used with cmd.

Support for M1 iPad Pro IPA

KR3866 — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:53:29 GMT

Would be awesome to have a version of this on M1 iPad Pro as an IPA file that we can side load if possible. Willing to be beta tester

Multi Head Support

Mac0815 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 17:50:50 GMT

Hi please add Multi Head Support for fusion.

For example:i want to select 2 of my 3 Monitors to use fullscreen mode for my VM.

regards Markus

Linux Guest OS - OpenCL support (OpenCL over Vulkan over MoltenVK over Metal wrapper?)

Eirikr1848 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:02:17 GMT

It seems like it will be a lot of translation laters -- but getting OpenCL support in Linux will be a game changer -- the "easiest" way I could think is OCL on Vulkan. But then will need Vulkan on MoltenVK on Metal so things could easily break. That being said, this is proprietary software, so that should be fine.

Mainline Mesa drivers need OpenGL support for X and Wayland.

Eirikr1848 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:00:01 GMT

Physicians use OpenGL-based applications such as Osirix on Mac OS - but there are plenty of Linux counterparts that they run in guest Linux environments. Definitely need full hardware acceleration in Mesa.

Support for APFS snapshots of VMs?

Technogeezer — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:52:09 GMT

instead of traditional VMware snapshots, could Fusion be enhanced to use native APFS snapshots instead? Fusion would no longer have to “roll its own” snapshots.

Also, having fewer files visible in the VMs bundles means that people wouldn’t get into trouble by removing what they think are extra files in a VM bundle, only to find out they’ve broken the VM.

Enhance the Linux kernel virtual graphics adapter to support Wayland

Technogeezer — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 21:12:02 GMT

More and more Linux distributions are configured with 5.14 or later kernels and support for Wayland as a default out of the box. Today it requires a bit of manual tweaking at the right time to make sure that you don't come up with a blank screen on startup because Wayland is being used.

I came across one of the Linux installer ISOs (can't remember which one) that just sits there upon if you choose the default boot option. I was lucky that this particular installer had an option to boot with a generic graphics adapter (which bypasses the use of the VMware virtual graphics console). For eventual production use, this is unacceptable because it adds additional steps to the process - and if the installer doesn't provide the generic adapter option, you're hosed (or at least have to try to come up with a creative workaround)..

Support for RHEL 9 ARM guests

tempest-t — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 14:56:29 GMT

It would be great to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x ARM (RHEL 9 ARM Beta) guests

"The 64-bit ARM architecture has a 4 KB page size in RHEL 9

Red Hat has selected a 4 KB page size of physical memory for the 64-bit ARM architecture in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. This size pairs well with the workloads and memory amounts present on the majority of ARM-based systems. To employ large page sizes efficiently, use the huge pages option to address a greater amount of memory or workloads with large data sets."

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9-beta/html/9.0_release_notes/new-features#enhancement_kernel

Apple M1
getconf PAGESIZE
16384

x86_64 virtualization on AARCH64-macOS

pmnxis — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 04:32:45 GMT

Still many system depend on x86_64.

Running x86_64-darwin(macOS) would be difficult. But wish VMFusion(AARCH64) support x86-64 virtualization environment for Windows 10/11 or Linux.