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VMware Fusion 12 Announced With Support for macOS Big Sur, eGPUs, and More
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Fusion has supported Linux guests for years. Maybe I'm not understanding your question.
it’s limited to older APIs so don’t expect much. It doesn’t mean you’ll be able to get ray tracing and Direct X 12 features of new graphics cards.
I just bought 11.5 at the end of July. I wonder if I will quality for a free upgrade. Anyone else in the same boat?
That's good that it's free for personal use. I wonder what constitutes commercial use? A VM that's attached to a domain?
As an example, does the "Fusion 12 Player" version support it ?
I am trying to read the differences in the fine print.
With Apple transition away from intel, I wonder if virtualisation would be a thing of the past on mac. Cloud-based VM are growing in popularity in the past few years, and supporting those on ARM Mac is going to be way cheaper and way more compelling than spending a lot of money trying to deal with Apple silicon and run a whole operating system on top of that. Plus renting virtual machine can also drive service revenue. Seems good to me.
The only way you're going to run Windows on an ARM based Mac is if Microsoft changes the way they license Windows On ARM.
well, they said it won't support the current boot camp..., and it's not like they've ever changed their mind...
You make a good point about the cloud. However some of my corporate clients prohibit the use of any cloud-based solution, even for encrypted backups. They are concerned about cyber security in the cloud. True, many are not, but I think we need to dispel this myth that everything will end up cloud-based.
Yes you will ! Anyone who bought Fusion 11 after macOS Bug Sir was announced at WWDC in June qualifies for a free upgrade.
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Don't see why it would be a significant challenge? Just route the API calls to the external GPU instead of the internal one? Of course, you don't get native driver support, so you re limited to whatever VMWare implements on their side.
I have been running a Citrix VDI on my Mac for years and on my and my iPad for a few months, I'll Continue to do so on a future arm powered Mac.
Maybe some companies or clients don't want to use cloud based VMs, it doesn't mean they can't provide them from their own servers.
Maybe some companies or clients don't want to use cloud based VMs, it doesn't mean they can't provide them from their own servers.
I stopped using VMware Fusion right after the fired everyone in California after they made them train their replacements in China.
Update: Read about some of it here:
www.thelayoff.com
Update: Read about some of it here:
Entire Workstation and Fusion groups gone - post regarding VMware Inc. layoffs
The Layoff discussion - User says: ``Entire Workstation and Fusion groups gone'' regarding VMware Inc.
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Please don't treat me like an idiot. I simply stated the FACT that Rosetta is not a hypervisor.
Do you say otherwise?
No, I'm saying you are missing the point of the question. But okay, not my problem.
OK, but why bring that up? Rosetta won't be any help running Windows (whether Windows on ARM, Windows on x86, or Windows on ARM with x86 apps inside) on an Apple Silicon Mac.
Well, as of now, there also aren't any ARM Macs (the DTK doesn't really count). It's perfectly possible that either Microsoft is planning something of their own (I bet they're looking at what Apple's doing, closely), or have been approached by any of Apple, Corel/Parallels, Oracle/VirtualBox, or VMware.