VMware Fusion 1.1.1 released

[webgoat]

Download the latest VMware Fusion 1.1.1 update (build 72241) at http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/ and check out the release notes at http://www.vmware.com/support/fusion/doc/releasenotes_fusion.html

[Sky Blue]

Installing now...


VMware Fusion now transparently remaps keyboard shortcuts when the user goes back and forth between applications in the guest and in the host. For example, VMware Fusion remaps -X to Ctrl-X in the guest. The same remapping happens for -Z/-C/-V/-P/-A/-F

Doesn't seem to work for me.

[deputy_doofy]

How's the speed? VMWare seems to crawl using Win XP, whereas Parallels is blazing fast.

[webgoat]

How's the speed? VMWare seems to crawl using Win XP, whereas Parallels is blazing fast.

i've never had speed issues running xp pro or vista 32 ultimate with fusion... were you allocating the same resources to the virtual machine with fusion and parallels?

[Mindflux]

How's the speed? VMWare seems to crawl using Win XP, whereas Parallels is blazing fast.


I hear the polar opposite from every single other user of both.

[cogsinister]

My 1.1. works fine....i am scared 1.1.1 will break it.....i think i will wait a bit....

[johny5]

I use fusion/xp for business use and I am a glutton every time when it comes to updates!
I just install then deal with the consequences later (wrong I know)
Anyway, it installed and has been running fine.

[pastrychef]

I hear the polar opposite from every single other user of both.

I agree with deputy_doofy. From my experience, Parallels feels much faster.

Someone ran a bunch of tests that proved the same, but I don't have the link...

[R.Youden]

I saw a piece that said Parallels was faster for XP, whilst Fusion was faster for Vista. I think that is about right in my experience.

[pastrychef]

Here are 3 links that compare the two products. Again, I've always felt that Parallels is faster on my machine.

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark/

http://www.computerwiz.com/?p=49

http://www.computerwiz.com/?p=104

[ayeying]

When the user starts up a Boot Camp virtual machine, the password prompt now has focus, so that the user can type in the password without first having to move the mouse over the dialog box to select it.

Finally they fixed that.. really annoying

[tofupancake]

1.1.1 is working fine for me, but I see no change from 1.1 in how I use it. Fusion seems considerably faster than Parallels in my usage.

[hajime]

1.1.1 works fine for me as well. It seems to be a bit faster.

[deputy_doofy]

I provide both "machines" the same amount of resources. However, Parallels flies, whereas VMFusion is sluggish.

When in Coherence/Unity mode, VMFusion slows down even more. I wish I knew how people were getting crazy fast speeeds from it. However, Windows 98 runs MUCH faster in VMFusion for me.

[amgems]

Here are 3 links that compare the two products. Again, I've always felt that Parallels is faster on my machine.

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark/

http://www.computerwiz.com/?p=49

http://www.computerwiz.com/?p=104

I have both. I only use one or the other. Swapped back to parallels based on the above reviews. Heading back as fast as I can to Fusion due to reliability and support issues.

There will always be folks who care only for how fast it feels, and damn the reliability, and that is fine for them, but not for me.

[Neil321]

Fusion is by far the better product for two reasons stability & support.As amgems
states there will always be this need for speed,i say go ahead but stable software wins hand's down in my book

[komodomitsu]

I hope the update would help with sharing video files in my VoSx.
They just wont paste.

[pastrychef]

I might be the only one, but Fusion always crashes on me after running continuously for several days. On the other hand, Parallels just keeps on running and running (and faster, too).

[katorga]

Fusion 1.1 slowed XP down a LOT for me. I downgraded to the Vmware tools video driver from Fusion 1.0.

1.1.1 seems to have really sped things up, and more importantly Vmware is using dramatically less CPU than 1.1, and way way less than Parallels.