I have used Fusion to run my personal Windows applications (like Outlook and the VMware vSphere Client) on my Mac, in Unity mode, and I have used Fusion to run even virtual ESXi 5. In fact, from an aesthetic point of view, Fusion is far superior to Workstation.
Fusion is sleek and impressive, like you would expect from a Mac OS X app. My Experience with Fusion 4Īfter being a longtime Workstation user, I’ve been trying to use Fusion 4 now for the last 2 months and have enjoyed it. Fusion is similar to VMware Workstation in many ways, however there are also numerous features on Workstation, that you would expect to find in Fusion, but they just aren’t there.
In the guest, after you copy one or more files, when you right-click the mouse in the host, the copied files are saved to the /tmp/VMwareDnD folder of the host.In Scott Lowe’s new article VMware Fusion 4: Top to Bottom, Scott covers all the latest features of Fusion 4 including: new HW version, improved graphics, VM encryption, how to pause a VM, Mac OS dock integration, application menu, mission control, and running Mac OS X Lion in a VM. The issue occurs on macOS 10.14 hosts only. Content in the clipboard of a virtual machine is automatically copied to the host tmp folder when you right-click in the host.Workaround: Upgrade to latest macOS 10.14. Is not a Coffee Lake, Skylake, or Kaby Lake model.Is installed with a macOS version prior to macOS High Sierra 10.13.
This issue does not occur when any of the following conditions apply to the Mac machine.
On a Coffee Lake, Skylake, or Kaby Lake Mac machine, if the host is installed with macOS High Sierra 10.13 and is using an Intel graphics card, the display of a running Windows 10 virtual machine starts to function improperly when the display resolution exceeds 4096 pixels.
The maximum amount of graphics memory is now bumped up to 3072 MB. Metal renderer should be supported by the macOS host
DirectX 10.1 is an incremental update of DirectX 10.0. The following support is new in Fusion 11:ĭirectX 10.1 support is added for Fusion 11.