VMware Fusion 2.0.6 Update Now Available
We are pleased to announce our latest maintenance release of VMware Fusion 2. VMware Fusion 2.0.6 is a free update for all VMware Fusion 1.x and VMware Fusion 2.x users. You can download the bits here.
VMware Fusion 2.0.6 fixes multiple issues when running VMware Fusion 2.0.x on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (32-bit kernel mode), including:
- Mouse losing focus on Snow Leopard hosts
- Driverless printing fails after an upgrade install of Leopard or Snow Leopard Software Update
- VMware Fusion 2 claims to be unlicensed after upgrading to Snow Leopard
- Slow 3D graphics on Macs with NVIDIA graphics cards running Snow Leopard
And much more! Read the Release Notes for more details.
Enjoy the new bits!
With Fusion 2.0.5 installed, my MBP would boot from poweroff to login in under 30 seconds.
With Fusion 2.0.6 installed on the same MBP boot time is consistently 5 minutes or longer.
Reverting to 2.0.5 and will wait for an update (2.0.7 or a fix).
Posted by: Dwaine | October 02, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Dwaine, can you post this with some details in the VMware Fusion community forum so that we can help you diagnose it?
http://www.vmware.com/go/fusionforums
Posted by: David Liu | October 02, 2009 at 04:21 PM
Any idea when we're going to get Fusion for 64 bit Snow Leopard kernel? Thanks
Posted by: Adam | October 03, 2009 at 08:51 AM
When is Aero support coming to Fusion?
Posted by: Joe MacBook | October 03, 2009 at 11:42 PM
I installed Fusion in my Macbook pro unibody (Snow Leopard) and used the Bootcamp Windows 7 RTM (64-bit) as virutal partition. It works fine except I experienced Windows activation loop even though I installed VM Tools before activation under VMware.
Posted by: Colman Ho | October 04, 2009 at 09:58 PM
I was hoping to see official support for Windows 7 in this release. Are there known problems, or what's keeping that back?
Posted by: Oliver Sturm | October 05, 2009 at 05:54 AM
Not only did 2.0.6 fix the cursor sticking problem in SL, but it also made my VM much snappier (probably like it was before the SL upgrade.) Thanks for the great work!
Posted by: Tom | October 05, 2009 at 02:45 PM
Guys, how can I prevent VMWare to add Windows apps to the Spotlight results? I don't want to see anything from my Windows VMs in the Mac Spotlight results.
When I need the Windows apps, I run Fusion and work with them. I don't need to be run accidentally.
Please tell me there's an option to switch that feature off.
Posted by: Aleksandar | October 06, 2009 at 08:11 AM
Aleksander, here's how to prevent that feature:
http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2008/12/09/disable-spotlight-for-vmware-fusion/
(I always got annoyed when opening terminal through spotlight, since the first hit was HyperTerminal... uggh)
Posted by: Erik | October 10, 2009 at 07:48 PM