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The good folks at VMware have IT Pros all over excited about the new Beta 2 release for its Fusion 2.0 virtualization software. According to our very own Leigh McMullen, this release is important “because it is the dominant virtualization technology in IT Shops, allowing us to create VM’s on our Macs as a “Lab” machine, that we can later run in production, (or take a production image, and run it on our Macs for experimentation).”
Additional goodies in the new release (which is a free upgrade for users of Fusion 1.x) include Leopard Server Virtualization – Yes, Parallels could already do that, but they charge over a thousand bucks for the version that can – and support for Ubuntu Unity mode – which is a FIRST as far as we know.
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8 responses to “VMware Releases New Beta for Fusion 2.0”
“and support for Ubuntu Unity mode – which is a FIRST as far as we know.”
Hmmm…Mr. MacGoog thought SUN’s VirtualBox already had a sort of Linux (and Ubuntu) unity mode. Have to check that out a bit later.
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Gosh!
Vista is UGLY!
I installed only to run ZBush, but thrashed it!
I’ll like to run MicrosoftCentric 3D .apps without installing Windows.
NO thanks!
MacGoog… I think you might be right for VirtualBox on Linux/Solaris. VB for Mac is brand new, so I think Lonnie was referring to Parallels being the other dominant product in the space.
Mr. MacGoog fired up VB on his MacBook Pro and lo and behold, it does have “a sorta unity mode” within Ubuntu. Pretty good performance as well.
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