As Derek pointed out below, Windows 7 is supported on VMWare Fusion 3 . but wait, there's more .
Since yesterday, Fusion 3 is available for preorder. Which means it's really really coming out soon. >From VMWare.com: "Buy VMWare Fusion 2.0 today and automatically get a free upgrade to Fusion 3.0" And Fusion 3 is reported to be the only VM that supports Aero. I wonder what happens if you try to turn on Aero with Parallels? Now I want to evaluate Fusion 3.0 Trial . but can't seem to find it available. From: Derek J. Balling [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:16 PM To: Edward Ned Harvey Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] comparison of VMWare Fusion 2.0.5 and Parallels Desktop 4.0 Just to touch on one thing. Fusion 3.0.0 is ready for release RSN (I mean, literally days or weeks probably). So, as someone who beta-tested 3.0.0 (and still has it running on my desktop), let me address a couple of these items, where 3.0.0 differs from 2.x.x: . Windows 7 is a supported guest OS in Parallels. By comparison, in Fusion . there are articles written on "how to make windows 7 run in fusion," but officially it's not a supported OS, and many articles have been written by people having difficulties. Windows 7 is, I believe, supported in 3.0.0. . In Parallels, you can configure your VM to start in whatever display mode you like. Fullscreen, coherence, modality, whatever. By comparison, unfortunately, Fusion can only startup in windowed or fullscreen mode. You can't start Fusion in Unity if that's your preference. You have to wait till it's up, and then switch. In 3.0.0, at least, if I have a VM in Unity mode when I shut it down, it will restart in unity mode. You may have to use the "Pre-Unity Window" to log in, if your windows isn't set to auto-login, but then that window will vanish and you'll be in unity mode automatically. . This is unconfirmed, but . I hear if you have an ESXi server, you can simply copy your VM files to it, and run your VM on a different set of hardware for a while, if you have something which will be compute intensive or memory intensive, or if you have any other reason why you'd want to run your VM on a different machine for some reason. I've done this. Cheers, D
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