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Tony says: "VMware may have taken its time doing it but a sneak preview of Fusion oozes good design sensibility, with Windows integration that blows the pants off anything you've seen before. Move, resize and stack your Windows apps as if they were running directly on your Mac; it feels like you've liberated them from their ugly prison ;-)"
Posted by John Troyer on June 6, 2007 in VMware Fusion
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Um VMware Fusion war es nun einige Zeit recht still. Nun habe ich im VMware-Blog ein Video gefunden. Es zeigt, wie VMware zu Parallels Desktop aufholen will.
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I get the feeling that if this video broke earlier, a lot of casual Mac virtualization users might have ignored the recent pre-order promotion for Parallels 3. But as a long time VMware Server user, the company reputation was enough for me to skip the pre-order. Aside from the tight guest/host desktop integration of Unity, I can only wish for the final release includes a "console" to allow the user to connect (even without Unity support) to remote VMware Server hosts running on Windows or Linux (or even on other Macs using Fusion!) the way VMware Server Console does. It would also be delightful if the final release of Fusion was free. =)
Anyways, thanks and keep up the great work!
Posted by: Mike McG | June 06, 2007 at 01:02 PM
This is a really astounding and wonderful feature but what about Unity for VMware Workstation (esp. for Linux hosts)?
Max
Posted by: Max | June 06, 2007 at 02:36 PM
This is really awesome, this is exactly what I needed to see to stop me from purchasing Parallels. Now if they only had this available for the Windows VMWare workstation, my dreams managing multiple systems from one system would be almost complete.
Posted by: Tomahawk | June 06, 2007 at 04:15 PM
Between better support for Linux (CentOS 4 in particular) and this, I'm ready to ditch Parallels. PLEASE tell me you guys are planning a competitive upgrade.
Posted by: Samuel Kennedy | June 06, 2007 at 04:47 PM
Funky stuff. But why not just run Windows? I got Fusion Beta installed on my MacBook and I just never need to use it. OS X, X11 and TSClientX do everything I need. Perhaps I'm an exception.
Now virtualising commodity Windows OS on an Xserve could be interesting, but ESX and VirtualCenter already rock (pity VirtualCenter is Windows only).
I purged my dependence on any vendor a long long time ago. My data is in open formats, the OS is completely irrelevant to me nowadays (something VMware taught me back in 2000).
Uh, great demo though, don't get me wrong!
Posted by: Mike Peter Reed | June 07, 2007 at 01:53 AM
Hi,
This is really exciting. This was the only reason to stay @ parallels. I am wondering if you can associate documents storend on HFS with windows applications.
Great demo.
Posted by: Robert | June 07, 2007 at 03:26 AM
As a long time Windows user, Windows certification owner, and user of Microsoft-based computers and servers of 15 years, I am very pleased to see vmware offering this product. A few friends at work own Macs, and we have them around for browser testing as well. I am very wary of moving to Vista, possibly cause of the all be bad press, but mostly because the O/S is becoming less important nowadays. You can literally perform all of your work and data storage online now. My backups, email, and some word processing is there already. Once Photoshop goes online, I will be happy. My next PC will likely be a nice small, lightwieght Mac laptop!
Posted by: Mayur | June 07, 2007 at 08:09 AM
Indeed, now if they could just get a client like this for Vista/XP, and allow it to pull apps from ESX server guest OSes, VMware Server Guests, or Workstation 6 guests, the dream would be complete. Any app, from anywhere, running on any OS. Would be a beautiful day...
Posted by: Nick | June 07, 2007 at 08:40 AM
I love the new way both you and other people in your market start showing us, that it all can come together. I sure like your mode way better by now! Congrats!
Posted by: WDPX | June 07, 2007 at 09:07 AM
I love the songs on that clip. Could you please shortly say what their names are and who the artist is? Would be great. Thanks.
Oh, and by the way, Fusion looks GREAT! ;-)
Posted by: Tom | June 07, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Wasn't Parallels offering this four months ago? What is the big deal? What am I missing?
Posted by: David | June 08, 2007 at 07:36 AM
David: The difference is that Unity supports Expose and z-ordering. With Coherence, even though it doesn't look like it, everything is still in one window. If you bring one guest window to the front, all of the windows in that guest come to the front. With Unity, only the one you chose comes to the front, just like you'd expect.
With Coherence, if you Expose, you can't see the individual guest windows. With Unity, you can.
Posted by: Eric | June 08, 2007 at 10:14 AM
This is indeed a much awaited feature and thanks to the team who pushed it hard.
Posted by: vista | June 08, 2007 at 10:30 AM
I did notice the wallpaper background flashing up in the dock and close of applications.
Is this a limitation of the Mac Desktop, or just simply have not got around to fine tuning like this?
Posted by: Jake | June 14, 2007 at 01:00 AM
Current versions of Parallels do support individual guest windows in Coherence.
Posted by: Mike | November 21, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Love it.
I need a unity feature in VMware Server or Workstation for use on a Linux host... what's the deal with this? Please tell me there is something in the works!
Posted by: trevor hicks | February 21, 2008 at 12:01 PM
I’ve just installed VMware fusion on an imac but I’m unable to access the shared drives on the windows workgroup. Can anybody help?
Posted by: joe | April 16, 2008 at 05:12 PM