Software Galaxy

Overview

Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion is the easiest way to switch to Mac—letting you bring all of your Windows applications with you, making the most of your Windows software investment, while providing the perfect safety blanket for the switch.

Break Down the Walls Between Windows and Mac
With the powerful Unity feature, VMware Fusion seamlessly integrates your Windows applications with your Mac. Instantly launch Windows applications from any Mac file, the Dock, and more. Minimize Windows applications to the Dock and even quickly switch between Windows and Mac applications with Exposé.

Safest Way to Run Windows on the Mac
VMware Fusion makes your Windows-on-Mac experience the safest possible with a suite of features to keep Windows safe and sound. From automated, timed snapshots, to embedded antivirus and antispyware software, VMware Fusion keeps Windows on your Mac sparkling.

Mac-like and User Friendly
Built from the ground up for Mac users, with an obsessive eye towards being a “good Mac citizen” VMware Fusion is the easiest, most Mac-friendly way to run Windows on the Mac. A Mac-first user interface ensures that users get the features they expect, like customizable tool bars, searchable Apple help, Boot Camp support, dock notification integration, and more.

Power to Burn
Based on the most advanced virtualization engine the world has ever known, the result of more than a decade of development, VMware Fusion brings all the power of VMware’s enterprise-proven technology to the Mac.

Why Choose VMware Fusion?
Thanks to its superior power, flexibility, and pedigree, VMware Fusion is the right choice for anyone looking to get the most out of their Mac by running Windows applications side-by-side with Mac applications.

Product Features

Break Down the Walls Between PC and Mac

VMware Fusion breaks down the walls between Windows and Mac OS X, transforming Windows applications to work seamlessly like Mac OS X-native applications.

Unity View
Mac and Windows unite with VMware Fusion’s powerful “Unity” view. Run Windows applications like Mac applications, quickly switching between Mac and Windows applications, minimizing Windows applications to your Dock, and even store Windows applications in your Dock to launch at a moment’s notice.

Data Sharing
Share data back and forth between your Windows and Mac with ease. Drag and drop files from your Mac to Windows, and back. Copy and paste styled text from Mac apps into Windows apps, and vice versa. Access all your Mac files, straight from any Windows application.

VMware Fusion’s Mirrored Folders easily maps special folders on your Mac—Desktop, Documents, Pictures, and Music—to their counterparts in your virtual machine. Use your Windows applications to run and modify Mac files and save files from your Windows applications straight to the Mac.

Application Sharing
VMware Fusion Application Sharing lets you have the best of both worlds by setting your favorite applications—whether Windows or Mac—to run any file.

Set Windows applications to launch specific file types in your Mac’s shared folders or directly launch Mac applications from inside your virtual machine. Use your Mac’s Applications folders to manage all available applications—even those in your virtual machine—and use VMware Fusion’s seamless link handling to set web links to launch in a default browser, whether Windows or Mac. Email, FTP, and other links too. Set web links in your Windows applications to open in Safari, Firefox for Mac, and others. Or set email links in Safari to open via Outlook.

3D and High Definition Video Acceleration
Run 3D games, design software and other graphic-intensive applications with VMware Fusion’s exclusive support for DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2 3D graphics.

Watch 1080p High Definition video in Windows applications at native speeds with greatly reduced CPU utilization.

USB Device Support
VMware Fusion offers complete USB 2.0 support—even for proprietary video cameras, GPS, Bluetooth, and other devices that only work in Windows. You can even use your Mac’s built-in USB devices, like the iSight camera and Bluetooth radio with your Windows applications.

Multiple Display Support
Use VMware Fusion with as many displays as your Mac can handle! VMware Fusion offers the first true multi-display support for your Mac, with additional physical displays showing up as individual displays in your virtual machine.

Drag Windows applications from display to display. Switch your virtual machine to full screen and watch it expand across all of your displays. VMware Fusion multiple display support lets you get the most out of your screen real estate.

Seamless Keyboard Mapping
With VMware Fusion Keyboard Mapping your Mac keyboard can now play nice with any Windows application.

Shortcut keys needed for Windows programs, but which don’t exist on the Mac keyboard—like “insert,” “print screen,” “F13” through “F16,” and more—are now a snap. Just set up a mapped key using VMware Fusion’s Keyboard Mapping.

Driverless Printing
Driverless printing makes your Mac’s printers automatically accessible to your Windows applications—no configuration required. Your Mac’s default printer even shows up as the default for Windows too.

Safer Windows on the Mac
VMware Fusion makes your Windows-on-Mac experience the safest possible with a suite of features to keep Windows safe and sound.

Multiple Snapshots
VMware Fusion brings a Mac-friendly user experience to taking and managing more than one snapshot. Save a snapshot of your virtual machine before installing new software to protect yourself in case something goes wrong.

AutoProtect Automatic Snapshots
Building on Multiple Snapshots, VMware Fusion’s AutoProtect automatically snapshots your running virtual machine at set intervals, protecting you from unexpected bumps in the road. Viruses, spyware and other nasties don’t give you fair warning to do a manual snapshot; AutoProtect means you still win.

Because AutoProtect retains hourly, daily, and weekly snapshot checkpoints, your virtual machines now have their very own time machine.

Embedded Antivirus and Antispyware Protection
To keep your Windows-on-Mac experience as safe as possible, VMware Fusion includes a complimentary 12-month subscription for McAfee VirusScan® Plus, providing antivirus, antispyware and Windows firewall software to help protect your Windows investment.

System Requirements

Minimum Requirements for VMware Fusion

• Intel® Mac required
• Minimum 1GB of RAM (2GB RAM recommended)
• 400 MB free disk space for VMware Fusion, and at least 5GB for each virtual machine
• Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
• Operating system installation media (disk or disk image) for virtual machines
• Microsoft Windows (not included)

Supported 32-Bit Guest Operating Systems

A “guest operating system” is an operating system installed on a virtual machine. VMware Fusion supports the following guest operating systems:

Client Systems

• Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise & Ultimate Editions)
• Windows XP (Professional SP2, Home Edition SP2)
• Windows 2000 Professional SP4
• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation SP6a
• Windows Me
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows 95 SP1
• Windows 3.1
• MS-DOS 6.x
• SUSE Linux (10.1, 9.3)
• Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5.0, 4.0 Update 4, 3.0 Update 8)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1—stock 2.4.9‐e3 (Workstation)
• Red Hat Linux 9.0—stock 2.4.20‐8, upgrade 2.4.20‐20.9
• Red Hat Linux 7.0—stock 2.2.16‐22, upgrade 2.2.17‐14
• Solaris x86 10 11/06 (Update 3)
• Ubuntu Linux (6.10, 5.10)
• Mandriva Linux (2007, 2006)
• FreeBSD (6.1, 5.5)
• Turbolinux Desktop 10

Server Systems

• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, R2 Enterprise Edition
• Windows 2000 Server SP4, Advanced Server SP4
• Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6a
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 9 SP3
• Novell Netware 6.5 SP5
• Novell Open Enterprise Server SP2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 4.0 Update 4, 3.0 Update 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1—stock 2.4.9-e3 (Advanced Server, Enterprise Server)
• Red Hat Linux 9.0—stock 2.4.20-8, upgrade 2.4.20-20.9
• Red Hat Linux 7.0—stock 2.2.16-22, upgrade 2.2.17-14
• Solaris x86 10 11/06 (Update 3)
• Ubuntu Linux 6.10, 5.10
• Mandriva Linux 2007, 2006
• FreeBSD 6.1, 5.5
• Turbolinux Enterprise Server 8

Supported 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems

NOTE: An Intel-based Mac with a Core 2 Duo or Xeon processor is required to run 64-bit guest operating systems.

Client Systems

• Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise and Ultimate Editions)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• SUSE Linux (10.1, 9.3)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5.0, 4.0 Update 4, 3.0 Update 8)
• Solaris x86 10 11/06 (Update 3)
• Ubuntu Linux (6.10, 5.10)
• Mandriva Linux (2007, 2006)
• FreeBSD (6.1, 5.5)

Server Systems

• Windows Server 2003 (SP1 Enterprise Edition, R2 Enterprise Edition)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (10, 9 SP3)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5.0, 4.0 Update 4, 3.0 Update 8)
• Solaris x86 10 11/06 (Update 3)
• Ubuntu Linux (6.10, 5.10)
• Mandriva Linux (2007, 2006)
• FreeBSD (6.1, 5.5)