Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 72.174.222.239]
on September 09, 2007 09:53 PM
I've been using Fusion for going on nine months and currently am using the full purchased version. I do like it a lot and it makes it quite easy to run multiple operating systems at once which makes my life as a developer much easier. Even the final version I'm using now still has bugs which leave some things to be desired. In Linux my mouse driver still doesn't properly handle cutting and pasting and it's rather annoying that your mouse won't go in and out of the virtual machine seamlessly when in a text console or graphical login screen. In any OS you sometimes get weird glitches where the OS will suddenly get switched to a different resolution - Linux especially suffers from this problem. Linux also doesn't restore from crashes or suspends as well as it should. Unity is kind of nice but has it's own group of minor bugs. There seems to be no easy way to save the running Windows apps in your task bar so that they'll work properly (it'd be nice to leave an IE6 and IE7 icon on my bar) and you can't hide the running window icons. Sometimes Unity will just lock things up especially when you're running a VMWare Server console in a guest Windows vm. It'd be nice if Unity would make the Windows windows look more like a Mac window - it's a bit annoying to havem to remember which side of the window the close button is on, etc. Just minor issues like that. One of the biggest annoyances I've experienced is that I couldn't create a virtual machine on my Mac and move it to my Linux server and run it with VMWare Server - it says the VM is of an incompatible type. For a developer you want to test a new server before putting it on your main VMWare server. In this case you can't.
You can run OS X in Fusion but you'll need to download a copy that is already hacked because it's a pain to get it to install from your OS X disks and then you need to do a lot of stuff to it to make it really usable in virtualization. A quick look on Google will find you plenty of torrents for OS X for VMWare.
Altogether, I think Fusion is a great product but I do hope they'll fix a lot of the minor bugs that currently are an ongoing annoyance. I wish they'd make it compatible with VMWare Server too both so that virtual machines created with Fusion would work with Server and so Fusion can be used to connect to a Server server.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 72.174.222.239] on September 09, 2007 09:53 PMYou can run OS X in Fusion but you'll need to download a copy that is already hacked because it's a pain to get it to install from your OS X disks and then you need to do a lot of stuff to it to make it really usable in virtualization. A quick look on Google will find you plenty of torrents for OS X for VMWare.
Altogether, I think Fusion is a great product but I do hope they'll fix a lot of the minor bugs that currently are an ongoing annoyance. I wish they'd make it compatible with VMWare Server too both so that virtual machines created with Fusion would work with Server and so Fusion can be used to connect to a Server server.
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