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VMware Launches 'Fusion 5' Virtualization Software, Parallels 8 Coming September 4
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Are you upgrading your Apple every two years? That's a lot more expensive than a VMware license.
Are you upgrading your Windows OS? Again, more expensive than the VMware license.
VirtualBox is free, and worth every penny.
VMware costs a small sum, and is more than worth every penny for the better performance and better support.
And BTW, I have three copies of VMware Workstation for my personal Linux and Windows systems - at $119.99 each for the upgrade. I consider it a bargain.
While this is a valid point, VMWare does an enormous amount of enterprise business. For even a medium size enterprise - think hundreds and thousands of VMs on ESXi clusters running RedHat enterprise linux using a different licensing/support model. Fusion for desktops makes up only a slice of their revenue.
Nowhere in Apple's EULA does the client versions include provisioning for virtualization. Such provisions are explicitly in the server versions. Like it or not, you are violating a legal agreement between you and Apple. The very fact that neither Parallels nor Vmware allows the client OS's means that they have the same respect for Licenses that you should.
There are legal ways to run older OS's provided you have supported hardware. Multi-booting is one such way. If your hardware isn't supported, that's nobody's fault. If you run any sort of a legit business, I wouldn't want to base it on violating software licenses.
If you want to follow the law (which I highly suggest that you do) you should be targeting either Lion or ML both which are explicitly allowed to be virtualized. Otherwise you should spend a couple of hundred bucks on the older hardware. If you run a business at all, you shouldn't be basing it on dishonesty of breaking agreements.
Huh??
Your fault, not anyone else's.
When I was deciding between the two, I read that the ||s vendor is based in Russia, and that customer service was pathetic, probably just as bad as HP's or Red Hat's. That's what led me to buy Fusion, and it's worked well.
News flash: STUFF COSTS MONEY!
There are actually people out there who pay Attachmate $400 for a friggin *terminal emulator*. $50 for something that does what Fusion does is hardly onerous.
Yep,
You do know that Mountain Lion is software, right?
So I guess because Apple makes so much money, VMWare should charge $5,000 for Fusion and we should all be happy?
They can charge what they want, they will still be called out on it.
Just don't try to insult everyone by calling it an "upgrade".
The reason they do it? Because the majority of sheep will buy it anyway.
Software that only is licensed to run on a piece of hardware that you've paid Apple a thousand dollars or several multiples of a thousand to use.
You do know that Apple hardware isn't free, right?
If it was like Gillette Fusion, then they should have skipped from 3 to 5. That would make this one version Fusion 6.
This is just what I was going to post too! Why are you people paying for something that's available for FREE - Go VirtualBox.
I used to use Parallels too, but after I found that they kept on asking for $50 every time they changed something, I looked elsewhere.
I think I also read somewhere that these other two applications are actually based on VirtualBox code too!
I submitted a .jpg of my July 27 receipt and key last night and this morning had an email with a new key and link to download v5
That's surprising, since VMware was shipping in 1999 and VirtualBox's initial release was in 2007.
Indeed - they actually use their own proprietary technology that gets shared through their various products. They have no need to use Virtualbox.
Yep, keep building the straw man.
Microsoft doesn't make PC hardware and they are charging $39 for an update, right?
For 3 months they are - it's a limited promotion. After that it goes right back up.
I've used Virtualbox for a while, and it's great. The only lacking feature is the ability to run apps only. Example: You cannot put Outlook, or say Word in the Dock and run it like a native app. Both Fusion and Parallels allow you to do that.
Wish there was an inexpensive way to mess around with 8. $50 for the application, $150 for the OS.
No thanks.
No thanks.
Windows 7 allows a 120 day trial period, and it looks like Win8 will also.
VMWare 5 - USB 3.0 Compatible?
Supposedly now supported, but I am not sure the use model. Here's what I see:
1. USB 3.0 drive is attached
2. exFAT partition & HFS partition both visible from Mac
3. I cannot see the exFAT volume from Win Desktop, but:
4. I can navigate to the exFAT volume: vmware-host > shared folders > exFAT
I can open files (i.e., XLS) from exFAT, but cannot save.
What am I doing wrong?
Supposedly now supported, but I am not sure the use model. Here's what I see:
1. USB 3.0 drive is attached
2. exFAT partition & HFS partition both visible from Mac
3. I cannot see the exFAT volume from Win Desktop, but:
4. I can navigate to the exFAT volume: vmware-host > shared folders > exFAT
I can open files (i.e., XLS) from exFAT, but cannot save.
What am I doing wrong?