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VMware Launches 'Fusion 5' Virtualization Software, Parallels 8 Coming September 4
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Let's not call it what it isn't: it's NOT a subscription service. If you don't pay this upgrade, will your VMware Fusion 4 license stop working? No. Does the license expire? No.
If you keep your Mac on OS 10.8, VMware Fusion 4 will keep working "forever". Ergo, it's not a subscription.
VMware costs money to develop, so IMHO it's reasonable that they ask money for new versions. If you don't think it's worth paying for the new version, your response is simple: don't buy it.
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Has anyone actually been able to upgrade to VMware Fusion 5? I've tried with Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on my Mac, and IE9 in VMware. Each time I've failed. I try to upgrade, I log in, and I've tried upgrading from my VMware 3 and VMware 4 licenses as provided on the screen. I hit the "Add to cart" button and ... nothing happens.
I've sent feedback to VMware but of course I haven't heard anything back (yet). I feel like I must be missing something that is obvious to everyone else out there.
So, at the Fusion 5 release, your old Fusion 4 quit? No? Ok, maybe it doesn't work on ML now then? No? Oh. So it isn't a subscription based model after all.
Yes. I've been able to. I went onto the website, added "Upgrade from Fusion 3" to my cart, logged in, selected my Fusion 3 license and was able to purchase. After you click the "add to cart" for Fusion 3, I believe there was another "continue" button on the screen.
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I think the point is that the "upgrades" are usually pretty nominal from a user perspective (more worthy of point upgrades than full version numbers). However, they usually stop supporting older OSes pretty quickly, so if you bought Fusion 3 to use in Snow Leopard, and now you run Mountain Lion, you are pretty much stuck upgrading, even though lots of other software that ran in Snow Leopard continues to run in ML, sometimes with patches.
It looks like the problem was that I missed a checkbox beside my old serial number. Apparently I had to check the checkbox AND enter the s/n in the textbox above.
I thought Server was more or less just an extra set of tools to administrate large numbers of networked machines (e.g. you can do a software update on a lab of computers from the single server). I didn't know there was any functional difference for running software on it what-so-ever. It's not like WindowsNT vs. Windows98 back in the day where the OS itself was different. I don't think the server version was that much more money for that matter (e.g. Lion's Server version is only $19.95 on the App Store to add to regular Lion). Admittedly, getting a hold of Snow Leopard Server at this point in time would be a bit more difficult, though. I don't know why Apple wants to limit the ability to run older software in virtualized machines, which seems like an ideal fix for people that need Rosetta, etc.
Snow Leopard Server and below were all separate SKU numbers and I believe With Leopard, the cost was several hundred dollars depending on the number of users (SL was unlimited only and was a couple of hundred bucks)
I think 8 GB of RAM is standard now. At least for people that care about their computer experience.
You mean Windows 7 Beta to give it its proper name
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i be laughing, except Vista is exactly the reason i bought a macbook pro, and i have never looked back.
You are not reading the fine print which says that you need to run Windows 8. This has been a problem with usb3 for quite some time and is the main reason why many, such as Apple, didn't go for usb3. They waited for Ivy Bridge. Problem with usb3 has been driver support for quite some time. Windows 7 can run with usb3 as long as you have the proper driver for it which sometimes can be quite a hassle. Windows 8 has usb3 support by default just like Mountain Lion has (Lion on the 2012 models is a tailor made version for those models).
"With added support for virtualizing Windows 8, ESXi5, Ubuntu 12.04, and Fedora 17, Windows Server 2012 as well as 200 other operating systems, VMware Fusion 5 will turn your Mac into the most compatible computer you’ve ever owned."(here)
Wasn't Ubuntu 12.04 already supported in Fusion 4.1?
It is, at least according to VMware's compatibility database.
And wasn't Fusion 4 already The best way to run Windows 8 on your Mac?
Seriously... does anybody know (or have any pointer to) how well Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.04 run on Fusion 4? I can do without Fusion 5's other features but running Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.04 (especially as this comes with Long Term Support release) would be nice.
Wasn't Ubuntu 12.04 already supported in Fusion 4.1?
It is, at least according to VMware's compatibility database.
And wasn't Fusion 4 already The best way to run Windows 8 on your Mac?
Seriously... does anybody know (or have any pointer to) how well Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.04 run on Fusion 4? I can do without Fusion 5's other features but running Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.04 (especially as this comes with Long Term Support release) would be nice.
Install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels 7 (or 8) in Lion
Restore Rosetta capability and be able to run PowerPC applications in Lion and/or Mountain Lion
Now Parallels 8 adds "cut & paste" capabilities between Lion/Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard, too (added in Parallels Tools)
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Restore Rosetta capability and be able to run PowerPC applications in Lion and/or Mountain Lion
Now Parallels 8 adds "cut & paste" capabilities between Lion/Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard, too (added in Parallels Tools)
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I don't get this thing with VrtualBox.... apart from it's free... I'm currently running VMWare Fusion 4 and Parallels 7... at present I can see that v7 of parallels in some respects is better than VMWare fusion 4 simply from a resource aspect. It also doesn't push your cpu temperature up as much as Fusion 4 does but to be honest I'm still contemplating between the 2.
I am quite impressed at the speed of conversion Parallels did for one of Windows 7 vm's but it ends there.
I'm going to be looking at VMWare 5 soon; but having always used VMware i'm quite loathed to changing.. as for licensing I don't have that worry as I have an older mac with SnowLeopard on it. I believe in paying for software like this. At the end of the day I get paid to do a job and so should they. Mark my words... as soon as VirtualBox becomes more popular they will want paying too.....
In my personal experience, some applications will run slower. There's only a limited amount of memory you can assign to the PC virtual machine, and you're not going to want to compromise your OSX installation by assigning most of your memory to the PC.
I only run the virtual machine in order to be able to access some proprietary corporate systems that refuse to see OSX properly, and in order to run some antique terminal applications to access remote machines in emergencies. So I'm usually just fine.
I'll volunteer that Microsoft Office seems kind of laggy and annoying. But...it was sort of like that anyway, right?
VirtualBox is open source. As soon as it is no longer free, someone can fork the project and continue to produce a free version.