VMware Fusion 3D for Mac

[ritalin]

New and Improved Features in Beta 2

This Beta 2 release of VMware Fusion for Mac includes the following new features and feature improvements:

* Experimental 3-D graphics support — Play a selection of DirectX 8.1 games in Windows XP Service Pack 2 virtual machines.
* Snapshot feature — Roll back your virtual machine to a known good state when something goes wrong in your virtual machine—for example, when your virtual machine picks up a virus, or when a software upgrade causes problems.
* Improved networking — Automatically bridge to the computer’s primary network interface.
Full support for Airport wireless networking, including virtual machines behind a NAT firewall and bridged to the local Airport network.
Support for up to ten virtual network interfaces
* Improved Microsoft Vista support — Support for Microsoft Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions.
Complete VMware Tools support for Microsoft Vista including copy/paste, dragging and dropping files, shared folders, and screen resizing.
* Improved hardware editor — Add additional virtual hard drives to a virtual machine for needed capacity.
View the physical computer's battery status in the virtual machine.
* Improved full screen mode — Support for plugging and unplugging displays while virtual machines are in full screen mode.
Improved usability: an on-screen tip shows how to enter and exit full screen mode easily.
* Experimental support for Mac OS X Leopard — You can now install and run VMware Fusion on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Support is experimental because Mac OS X 10.5 is not yet released. Fusion will support the release version of OS X 10.5 in the final VMware Fusion release.

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www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion...tes_fusion.html

Edit: link is now fixed

[aquamac]

Hey, I had a go with this on my Hackintosh, worked perfectly with Vista RC1. Thanks Ritalin! ;D

[ritalin]

Beta 2 didn't work all that well on my machine :-( Well thats probably a little harsh. It worked okay, but the 3D performance was a long way from perfect.

I just tried the Beta 3 with debugging disabled and it was much nicer. 3D Mark 2001 benchmarks fine. If things keep progressing as well as they have we could soon have perfect XP emulation/virtualization. Question, is this a good or bad thing?

[ritalin]

I've just got VMware Fusion beta 4 working on the iHack and it works well. It now has the option to use your bootcamp partition as a virtual machine. I simply selected "Boot Camp partition" in the VM list, then clicked "Run". It detected my XP installation on my second hard drive and it booted fine. I must say using a real HD speeds things up.
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