Hi Scott, good points. I pay for Fusion because I don’t think we have much of a choice, though I certainly like the VMWare codebase. On Windows Workstation is a much better product; you can use Workstation to build VMs that Fusion will run.
I can appreciate that everything changes and usually gets better; hardware virtualisation is a great example of that. Now your guest OS doesn’t need special sauce just to run, though it may benefit from guest helpers to make it run faster without overhead on virtual hardware. KVM on Linux is where it’s at: it is a layer of virtualisation support accessed by host applications that provide the interface to the user. Really awesome, and the only condition is that your processor knows how to virtualise privileged modes. I’ve no doubt something like that will be part of every OS soon; Windows has HyperV and OS X now has this virtualisation subsystem. I guess what I’m saying in regard to VMWare specifically is that, unless the actual virtualisation part of the virtualisation software has changed, it seems strange that there should even be a need for an upgrade. Just release the new guest tools, provide a patch to provide the new specification for the hardware that your new OS wants, run the Win10 upgrade assistant thingy inside Windows, and you’re set. VMWare on the other hand is giving you the complete package and charging for it on what appears to be the thin promise of “Supports new shiny thing” while overlooking the actual changes required in a well-designed stack. It’s a bit like digital rentals; you make a complete copy, so it’s not a rental at all, but you don’t mind as long as the price is lower and the rental is advertised as a rental. If your connection speed is fast enough you might even be led to believe that the Internet isn’t even involved, thus completing the illusion. So yeah, just my little rant. Honestly I think it’s just VMWare being VMWare and sadly, it seems, catching on that Mac users are happy to pedal the treadmill. Can’t complain when I paid for a Mac, after all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
