VMware Fusion 4 [Old Version]

I have had no problems running VMWare Fusion 4 with a Windows 98 and various Linux installations. But...Im not happy about the fact that it requires a paid upgrade only a year later in order to maintain compatibility with Mountain Lion. I was happy using VirtualBox for virtualization prior to VMWare, and will be going back to that stable, reliable and free Open Source solution (available from Oracle).

Fusion 4 works well, as has been stated in numerous other reviews. And overall I like it. But I do find it annoying on some levels.

I totally recommend it! It made my life easier. I am currently use Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server and Office 2007 on a virtual machine and it runs perfect.

Simply put, this product rocks!!!! My VMWare fusion 2 & 3 was slow and sluggish and was incompatible OSX 10.7 (LION) for MAC. VMWare fusion 4 installed and after an updated my VMs ran much smoother and more efficiently than ever.

High hopes and disappointment with this new release. I should have waited longer to upgrade.

Can it get better? I dont know if it can :) Best tool I have used so far. So nicely it integrates windows apps inside dock, launching windows app, toggle between apps is so intuitive.

NOTE: This is the older version!

Great software that allows me to run Windows and other Intel based OS’s on my Mac. It runs as a Virtual Machine, so no rebooting necessary. It came with the installer on a flash drive, which was great. Setting up my first VM was easy - the software walked me through the process and I had a Windows VM in no time. Performance is good enough for my needs - Windows is responsive. Integration with the Mac is fine - meets my needs. The user interface for Fusion is clean and well-designed, with all options in reach while not being cluttered. In all I’m very happy with it.

I had trouble transferring by system and had to purchase another copy of windows because my Dell did not give me a copy... the main reason I am moving on to Mac. Other than that, product is working well. No complaints except my clock is not updating; something that I think is my problem...not fusion 4.

Im using VMware on my mid-2010 Macbook Pro running a 2.4GHz Core i5 processor and 4GB of RAM. I installed Windows 7 in the VWware environment. Overall, Windows is running great and practically seamless with VMware. My Macbook does run a little warmer and causes the fans to spin faster and louder, but its not that big a difference. My favorite feature is being able to associate a Windows-only application, such as Windows Media Player, to its particular file extension in Mac OS X (so if I click a WMV file in Mac, then it will open up in Windows Media Player through VMware)