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VMware Fusion 13 Now Available With Native Support for Apple Silicon Macs
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I tried to like VirtualBox but it always had problems and so I stuck with VMware Fusion as it was much better. Realized that I no longer needed Virtualization as nothing that I do ever requires Windows. Over the last eight years my most used Windows program was Windows Update.
Just-in-time compilation. This is only available in Apple's own OS components, namely WebKit and JavaScriptCore.
Your MBP overheated? My i7 15-inch MBP (2018) runs Windows on VMWare Fusion just fine.
It only support OpenGL 4.3.
Nobody at the moment support DirectX 12 on Apple silicon
I can highly recommend everyone checking out UTM
It's free, and really (REALLY) better than any other commercial VM client (both for running any macOS and any Windows version).
It's not better than Parallels
Registration issue here too. Blank page. What is worse: I cannot open a support request at vmware connect because my account is not linked to a registered product. Guys, that is what I want to do.....
What is the option now: pay for a free product (vmware fusion 13 player for personal usage)?
It took already an hour to find the free download version, pffffffff
What is the option now: pay for a free product (vmware fusion 13 player for personal usage)?
It took already an hour to find the free download version, pffffffff
As here:
Fusion 13 Sales FAQ (90058)
Purpose This article provides information on frequently asked questions regarding sales, licensing and the compatibility of VMware Fusion 13.x.
They state that free version for personal use is available:
"Personal Use customers may register for a new free license from this link: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal regardless of the currently owned license."
It is most likely only glitch with new version registration - I guess it will be fixed early next week. It happened in the past too. Big organization issue - some department did not do their job yet
These are due to limitations with Apple’s hypervisor framework. AFAIK no non-Apple hypervisors for Apple Silicon exist or are in development. Both Parallels and this new version of VMware Fusion are using Apple’s hypervisor framework for virtualizing ARM64 operating systems atop Apple Silicon, not their own. So they’re really just varying implementations of the same underlying thing.
To that end: no, this version of VMware Fusion doesn’t support running macOS VMs at all. That said, I still vastly prefer Parallels 18 to previous versions of VMware Fusion for virtualizing macOS due to the robust support for paravirtualized GPU acceleration of the interface. The lack of flexibility and features like suspend are annoying, but Parallels now detects and uses the resolution of the main display (for good full-screen use) when starting a macOS VM automatically, and that fits right in with my workflow. And once I get into the VM, it’s nice and fast. Unfortunately we’re just going to have to keep waiting for Apple to continue to refine and improve the feature-set of its hypervisor framework so developers like Parallels can hopefully introduce more robust features like the ones you describe.
Parallels as a company must have taken quite the financial hit since Apple Silicon has been released. Apple basically rendered their software useless to any new macs. It’s now somewhat useable again, but with very tight limitations and no real licensable version of Windows.
VMware is very corporate. I’m sure they saw none of this, or really care much about it.
VMware is very corporate. I’m sure they saw none of this, or really care much about it.
I've been waiting for this since I got my Apple Silicon Mac. I used to use VMWare Workstation Pro when I had a Windows computer, and it was by far the best virtualisation software available for programming work, so I'm going to buy VMWare Fusion Pro as soon as my free trial runs out. I need to be able to run multiple different operating systems for test purposes.
On my 2018 i9 15” 32GB Windows 10 Pro and a VM of Catalina worked fine. Yes the fan would get noisy, but no performance issues to speak of.
However, on my 2020 i9 16” with 64GB, under Fusion v12, both VMs are buttery smooth still too, and no fan noise whatsoever. I can run Visual Studio and some other development software on the Windows VM no issue.
I literally asked if I could, but I wouldn't if the quality is significantly worse like your post implies. But that was the literal point of me asking!
You wouldn't be talking to me with that sarcastic attitude if you weren't on an anonymous internet forum, that's for sure!
While, unfortunately, there's no support to virtualize macOS on Apple Silicon hosts, you can continue to virtualize macOS on Intel Macs, and support for macOS 13 guests is there as well.
Has anybody tried Ubuntu 22.04 or a recent Debian on this new version? There was a "known problem" with this on the tech previews (due to a change in the Linux kernel - but other hypervisors seem to manage).
It's still useful for running Linux - especially if you want to run a Linux desktop distro (which alternatives like UTM, Multipass etc. aren't brilliant at) - obviously that's a minority use c.f. Windows but it's something
I'm not going to gaslight anybody who actually needs to run Windows on their Mac - but I suspect Windows on Mac is a shrinking market anyway c.f. 2006 when Parallels was launched. A lot of "consumer" apps that once needed Windows have moved to mobile, websites that only worked on IE now work on Chrome (if not Safari), there's probably a better choice of native Mac software & cross-platform stuff using Electron etc. and using virtual desktop to connect to a work or cloud PC is a lot more viable than before. It's not a market I'd be sinking investment money into right now.
I used to rely on Parallels for testing websites on IE (the big problem) and pc versions of Chrome, Netscape etc, but IE is now dead (hurrah!) and the last time I found a "bug" which didn't show up on Mac browsers it turned out to be a clash between Parallels and Netscape. If any more web development work comes down the pike, what I'll need will be a proper Windows 2-in-one which lets me test stuff with a touchscreen.
Free, yes, better, no. If it worked better, maybe, but it still needs a lot of work.
Gaming is never going to be great with virtualization -- everything that makes virtualization great (sharing resources, different OS's, sharing resources), is not good for gaming and everything that makes gaming great is the opposite.
And yes, I said sharing resources twice, and I'll say it again, sharing resources. It's for doing more with what you have.