Comments on: VMware Fusion 2 Beta

By: William Stewart

William Stewart — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:08:59 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:02:12 +0000

@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.

By: Peter Motyka

Peter Motyka — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:43:51 +0000

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.

By: Ben Jammin™

Ben Jammin™ — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:04:40 +0000

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.