I noticed yesterday that VMware Fusion 2 Beta was announced. Now, I’m not a Mac user so this isn’t really all that exciting for me — but I am curious about one point of the announcement:
VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 integrates importation of Parallels Desktop and Virtual PC for Mac virtual machines.
Some might recall a year or so ago I tried to convert a Virtual PC image to a VMware image to use the Microsoft IE 6 (or IE7) virtual machine. It was a debacle (see Virtual Conversion Virtually Ugly for more on that). So now I’m wondering if that conversion will work better with this new Fusion convertor. Anyone tried it yet?
How else do you guys test IE6 from a Mac? Seems like it must be a pain.
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May 7th, 2008 
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Still not the functionality I’m looking for – I still need a real PC to create a “virtual machine” from the free VHDs (virtual machine hard drives) that MS provides. Microsoft Virtual PC does not like running in a Fusion virtual machine, which is how I’ve been trying to create a virtual machine out of those “virtual hard drives”.
It is a pain, any way you look at it.
I’m going to give it a test drive this weekend. The idea of booting a bootcamp image nativly or via VM is neat. Will report back on my experience.
@Ben – not sure I follow (or know enough). I read it as though Fusion 2 would do that conversion for you, no need for a real PC.
@Peter – curious to hear how it goes.
I’m using VMWare Fusion 1.x with Windows XP on a 2 year old MacBook Pro. I’m using it to run pretty much one application – Microsoft Money – but being tempted with other Windows-only apps along the way. Livestation is rather good, and you wouldn’t know you’re running in a Virtual environment as you’re watching BBC World – the next one I want to try is Flight Simulator X, if it can handle that, i’m sure it can handle anything.