After months of waiting, the public beta of VMware Fusion is finally available. What is Fusion? It is VMware's OS X virtualization client. Most of you are probably familiar with Parallels for the Mac, which allows you to run Windows, and other OSes, on your Mac. Fusion is VMware's a wer to Parallels. VMware is the market leader in the virtualization ace, and so having a VMware a for OS X is a big deal.The beta works with all Intel Macs and allows you to virtualize a number of different operating systems. You can a ign multiple proce ors to your virtual machines, and Fusion su orts U 2.0 out of the box. One of the largest selling points of Fusion, besides VMware's track record, is that you can download and run a number of Virtual A liances which run the gamut from a complete Oracle 10g environment to a lightweight Kno ix i tall. As with any betas, there are bugs so make sure to read this page detailing them all.
Read on for some pictures of the beta in action.
< an style="font-style: italic;">Thanks, Jamie.
The window that greets you when you first run Fusion:
Setting up a new Virtual Machine:
The list of operating systems that are su orted:
Various flavors of Windows su orted:
A virtual a liance starting up:
Memory Settings:
Proce or settings:
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