[The Godfather]

Available for download now
The Mac Robotics Blog: VMWare Beta 3: now available
They removed the DEBUG option, and added Bootcamp support. I'll try this at home and stage a face-off between Parallels and Fusion. Should be interesting.

[mdc]

Does this beta have the 3d graphics support that they showed off in a video recently? I wonder how well that feature works.

[goMac]

Originally Posted by mdc 

Does this beta have the 3d graphics support that they showed off in a video recently? I wonder how well that feature works.

Beta 2 actually had this.

I registered for beta 3 but am yet to receive a registration code.

[powerbook867]

I'll be trying this at home as well...I wonder if it will boot Vista off my Bootcamp partition....

Faster is better..

[Art Vandelay]

Originally Posted by goMac 

Beta 2 actually had this.

I registered for beta 3 but am yet to receive a registration code.

The code was on the same page as the download link. They don't send it to you.

[mac128k-1984]

Why is this in the lounge and not in the Alternative Operating Systems forums?

[TheoCryst]

Originally Posted by powerbook867 

I'll be trying this at home as well...I wonder if it will boot Vista off my Bootcamp partition....

Yep, it does! No Aero support, since Aero requires DX9 (and VMWare only supports 8.1). However, it's fairly responsive and fluid, even with only 512MB of memory allocated to the VM.

[brokenjago]

Originally Posted by TheoCryst 

Yep, it does! No Aero support, since Aero requires DX9 (and VMWare only supports 8.1). However, it's fairly responsive and fluid, even with only 512MB of memory allocated to the VM.

Wha? From official release notes:

Originally Posted by VMware

Note: For this Beta 3 release, Windows Vista is not supported; only Windows XP is supported.

[powerbook867]

Actually, I think I am running bootcamp 1.2..and it may be causing me problems. When I tried to bring up my Vista install in VMWare, it blue screens...

[TheoCryst]

Originally Posted by brokenjago 

Wha? From official release notes:

Hmm... I guess it isn't "officially" supported, but it still works perfectly fine for me. They probably just haven't tested it very thoroughly, and just want to play it safe.

[ixus_123]

I think it's great. Finally I can access company training videos (which need activex & are DRM'd) from my macbook without needing to dual boot.

My free beta license runs out on 16th July - anyone got an idea on how much VMware Fusion final will cost?

[mduell]

Originally Posted by ixus_123 

My free beta license runs out on 16th July - anyone got an idea on how much VMware Fusion final will cost?

For Windows and Linux they have a free "server" version (which you can use to create and run VMs) and a paid "workstation" version (with a few more features) for $200... I'm hoping we'll see the same offerings for Mac.

[ixus_123]

I hope so too.

I use VMware player on Ubuntu Linux to run Windows XP - I hace to in order to run a few applications. It's also great for many of the complete systems you can download - like FreeNAS & DSL - it's a great way to try things out.

I hope it's free when the beta comes out. If it's not then I'll try Q which looks promising

[ixus_123]

any idea where fusion stores the virtual machines? I installed XP and have it set up quite nice & would like to move it over to my linux box when the licence on fusion runs out but I cant find the vdmk or what ever else i need to copy

[legacyb4]

Parallels puts them in ~/Library/Parallels so I would think somewhere similar?

Originally Posted by ixus_123 

any idea where fusion stores the virtual machines? I installed XP and have it set up quite nice & would like to move it over to my linux box when the licence on fusion runs out but I cant find the vdmk or what ever else i need to copy

[hookem2oo7]

either in ~/Documents/Virtual Machines or ~/Virtual Machines