Run the Player-Version on Big Sur Beta. As I understand they use this new Apple hypervisor. Its pretty great in all its glory. Btw. you dont have any restriction to Pro Version while setting up a VM. You cant join an ESXI Cluster or manage one and some networking capabilities are not present but for private use its a great step in the right direction. In case this Player-Version is like the old Standard-Version. Tested the Player-Version with Windows 10 Enterprise ... works fine as well as with my Windows 3.1 and DOS based dev machines. Comming from 11.5 Pro you can even import the old machines to the Player-Version.
Curious as to the battery performance with the 16" i9. My issue with 11/11.5 has been the machine not sleeping when a VM is running and the lid is closed, causing the battery to drain in the bag along with the associated heat. Add that VM's have always been a big hit to the battery life, even when not doing any heavy lifting. With the faster pause function, maybe they made some changes to the sleep/wake as well.
O boy I just spent 3 days trying to get Virtual Box working. Ended up shelling out for VM Fusion. I almost think Fusion is faster then my Catalina OS. I use Fusion for Mojave because I have legacy 32 bit software for studio hardware. The 32 bit software works in the virtual machine.
I've had terrible experiences with running Virtual Machines (either VM network or DirectX issues). Can this do that no problem? Say I want to run an old windows 98 program OR windows 98 game; Can I create a custom video card like a Voodoo 3 3fx? OR a Diamond Monster 3D 4mb voodoo 1 pci card? How about a custom network card? 200 bucks is a lot to pony up for this but I might give it a try if it's much much simpler to get up and running. Any input is appreciated, thnx
Although that progress bar takes ages - the actual machine is still usable and you can carry on. The snapshot is happening in the background. In fact I found I could take a snapshot, remove an app and then rollback to that snapshot irrespective of that progress bar...
That has been my experience *mostly*, but once or twice it hasn't, and that was properly irritating. I wondered if Parallels was doing something in the background and just not showing progress - Activity Monitor doesn't seem to indicate it is. This could just be a question of faith on it doing its work couldn't it? It's the biggest blockage for me tbh. Although saying that, go try the Unity mode. It's beyond crap compared to Parallels' Coherence mode? I may switch back to Fusion for my server stuff as it makes it easier to dump on to ESX, and I mostly connect to those via RDP anyway.
@@MacRS4 Yes parallels is better at the integrated stuff but then I pretty much never use that anyway, if I need to use VMs these days it is more around servers or quick Windows desktops for testing stuff. I could probably get by with VirtualBox if I needed to. Parallels' business model annoys me, I got an unexpected £80 charge 3 days ago as it turns out when you purchase Professional you are agreeing for them to charge you every year. I imagine this will be the last year anyway as it doesn't look like there is going to be any x86/x64 virtualisation with Apple Silicon any time soon.
@@planetwilson I actively use it. Soon as my iMac Pro fires up it has a Windows 10 VM running in coherence. Ref cost - Yeah, get that, but my company pays for mine. No x86 virtualisation = No Apple Machines for me unfortunately!
Wondering how this will work, as a first time Mac user, on the M1 chipped 8 gb model. VMWare's blog hasn't been updated from what I can see, but I am hopeful it will be ok. If so, I can move many of my users over to Mac.
Not currently, no. Parallels has a solution in tech preview to run ARM Windows via Virtual on ARM Macs, but x86 stuff via Virtual Machines you're out of luck at the moment. Frustrating, but inevitable.
I'd really like you to go into the graphics department on your real review. How does the graphics performance stack up to each other? Are games possible in VMWare Fusion, if so, how are they compared to Parallels?
Fusion performance is fine still not as fast as parallels but unity mode is still a hot mess and after talking to support they don’t care about it as long as regular mode works great. Staying with parallels for my development needs
Yeah I completely get that. I use Parallels on the desktop - having Fusion running my server stuff though (which I tend to connect to via RDP) is now viable with this, when it wasn't with 11. Makes it way easier getting the stuff up to ESX.
@@MacRS4 I just think that after the disaster that VMWare had for fusion 11 this version is much better but I do not understand from a company that has been doing virtual software as long as VMWare that they would still produce software that is not as good or equivilant as the competition. When I called them they told me that they focus on running virtual boxes in full screen and not anything else. Just seems short sided for them that is all. I do however get the idea of the esx server. Parallels in my eye is just superior on a Mac.
That makes sense as Fusion is kind of a small project for them. What I do with my Mac is pretty minor compared to what I do on my servers in ESXi. The fact that I can lift a VM from Workstation to Fusion and back tells me that they may be a bit hamstrung compared to Parallels is they want to maintain this ability. There is no ability to intermingle a VM with the host in their other environments.
The vmware store is selling VMware Fusion 12 player for $149 (vs. $199 for Pro). At 0:34, you say the Player version is free. Is it really? Where? ... Edit: huh, I could not find a free license from the vmware site. Then, I searched the internet for ... vmaware player free ... and got directed to the right page on vmware's site. However, I have to Update My Profile to register For The Product. Reloading the page .... It's not accepting my account details ... I reload the page instead of "cancel", and now I can change to single user instead of organization, but my username is taken ... Oh, FFS ... new username ... FINALLY! I could download. Maybe this will be easier for first time users. ... Edit2: I cannot get My Keys. The page wouldn't load, then I couldn't find it again. VMware is making this ridiculously difficult.
