I think anything to Fusion 5 is $50.
Let's call it what it is, a $50 a year subscription service.
They have lost me as a customer.
I love how Apple can charge $20 for a full blown OS upgrade but VMWare wants $50.
Let's call it what it is, a $50 a year subscription service.
[/COLOR]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.
Damn right. I don't need three Macs on my desk just to build code for 10.4 onwards. Even if I kill Tiger support, I still need a Snow Leopard box and a Mountain Lion box, which is stupid. I don't want to develop on Server, and nor should I need to pay for it (not least because I can't even buy SL Server now).
There is a freeware network editor for Fusion 4, Uber Network Fuser;
http://nickapedia.com/2012/01/10/breaking-new-ground-an-uber-tool-for-the-mac/
My usual advice is to upgrade RAM. I had a horrible experience with Vista until I've doubled my RAM from 1GB to 2GB, that was around 4 years ago. It's still a piece of horse manure though and miles behind Windows 7, which is a million times better.
Anyone else think that it is funny that the image skips Windows Vista?!?!
The biggest promoter of Mac OS X
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).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?
So I use free and better VirualBox.
For anyone that's used this before, how well does it run? I always wondered if you ran something like this all the programs would run a lot slower than they would on an actual PC machine.
Mark my words... as soon as VirtualBox becomes more popular they will want paying too.....
VirtualBox is open source. As soon as it is no longer free, someone can fork the project and continue to produce a free version.