Access a virtualization environment and run various OS, like different versions of Windows or Linux on your Mac. Assign an IP address in your home network to your virtual machine and transfer files between operating systems. Run a virtual machine in full-screen or in the Unity mode that simulates macOS on other platforms.
VMware Fusion is a virtualization environment for the Mac. It is a product specifically developed for the Mac. Fusion allows you to install a Windows operating system that runs within Mac OS X. You can even share your files with Windows. Both OSs run simultaneously, and you can even assign an IP address in your home network to your virtual machine.
Installing an operating system on your VMware Fusion is incredibly easy. All you really need is a copy of the OS and some 10 minutes. Really, that's all it takes on the latest generation Macs. You can even preload your serial key and your username for a totally unattended installation. Once the new system is set up, VMware Fusion installs VM Tools, a set of applications that help the integration between your Windows VM and Mac OS X. You can drag and drop files between the two OSs.
Virtual Machines can be run in full-screen or in a very innovative mode called Unity. In Unity, all your Windows applications are run as if they were Mac applications. They will go to the Doc and you can call on them from the VMware menu.
The newer versions of VMware support all major operatiing systems, like all versions of Windows and most distributions of Linux. The installation wizards are of great help.
You may think that running a VM machine within Mac OS X will kill your system. Well, there are two sides of that assumption. If you have plenty of RAM, you will not even feel the VM running. If you are running a stock Mac, chances are that the system will get slow at times. You can assign a specific amount of RAM to VMs, to avoid getting your system slow, but remember Windows is a memory hog. You can run an unlimited number of VMs.
My favorite feature is Snapshots. With Snapshots you can save the "state" of a VM, so you can go back to it at any time. So if Window crashes, which is bound to happen, you can simply restore your computer. It works like a charm.
v5.0 [Aug 24, 2012]
- Install and Upgrade
- Previously, you could not include the space character in the security server password or a trailing space at the end of the password. If the security server password contained a space, security server installation failed with the message Unable to pair the Security Server with the specified Connection Server.
- View Administrator
- Previously, on rare occasions, when you used the Add Pool wizard, the following error message appeared: "There was an error while trying to determine domains. [errorcode=3,000]." This message indicated that one of the domain objects in Active Directory was corrupted. This issue has been resolved.
- View Client
- A memory leak issue associated with copying and pasting text was addressed and resolved.
- Occasionally, if you used a View desktop on multiple monitors and had some application windows open on each monitor, if the View desktop session got disconnected and then reconnected, some of the application windows would change size, position, monitor, or some combination of these. This issue has been resolved.
- Previously, on rare occasions, View Client could not connect to View Connection Server, and the client logs indicated a failure of the AcquireCredentialsHandle API, with a 0x80090305 error. This situation occurred because the message framework component of View Client failed to load the secur32.dll system DLL dynamically. This issue is now resolved by linking secur32.dll statically in Messageframework.dll.
- With regards to the virtual printing feature, occasionally, one or more printers available from your client system would not become availab le from within your View desktop. Or you would see printers listed in the View desktop that were not available to your client computer but were available from a client computer that you previously used to connect to your View desktop. This issue has been resolved.
- Previously, on Japanese systems, if you used location-based printing, in the View desktop, if you went to the Printers and Fax dialog box, clicked Preferences, and then went to the "Page Setup" and "Advanced" tabs, you would find that the text at the bottoms of these tabs was truncated. This issue has been resolved.
- Previously, when you first logged in to a checked out local desktop, the desktop would sometimes display the following error: There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. This issue was most likely to occur for a Windows Vista or Windows 7 guest operating system on a full virtual machine from a manual or automatic pool.
- Miscellaneous
- Previously, if you opened a command prompt in a View desktop and ran the set command, the list of environment variables displayed would sometimes not include the volatile environment variables for View Client. This issue has been resolved.
- Previously, you could configure dedicated View desktops to be suspended if users had logged out but not if they had disconnected without logging out. This issue has been resolved so that you can now configure dedicated View desktops to be suspended when users disconnect. This functionality helps to conserve resources. To enable "Suspend on disconnect":
- Open ADSI Edit.
- In the console tree, click ADSI Edit.
- From the Action menu, select "Connect to."
- In the "Select or type a domain or server " field, specify the server name as localhost:389.
- Under "Connection point," click "Select or type a distinguished name or naming context ", and then specify the distinguished name as DC=vdi, DC=vmware, DC=int and click OK. The ADAM ADSI Edit main window appears.
- Expand the ADAM ADSI tree, and expand OU=Properties.
- Select OU=Global and select CN=Common in the right pane.
- Select Action > Properties, and under the pae-NameValuePair attribute, add new entry suspendOnDisconnect=1.
- Restart View Connection Server. New Features:
- New bundled Mac OS X client - The new PCoIP-enabled View Client for Mac OS X is now bundled with this release. For more information, see the VMware View Client for Mac OS X Release Notes.
- Client SSL requirement - View Client for Windows 5.0.1, View Client 1.4 for Mac OS X, and the other View 1.4 clients require SSL for connections to View Connection Server. Therefore, you must enter a fully qualified domain name for View Connection Server, rather than an IP address, in the View Server field of View Client. By default, View Client then checks the server certificate that View Connection Server presents. For more information, see the topics about configuring certificate checking in the VMware View Installation document and in the Using VMware View Client documents for the various platforms of View Client.
