VMware Fusion 2.0 IS Here

jcharlesworth · Sep 20th, 2008, 12:33 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by neufelni
	Did you upgrade VMware Tools in your Windows VM? I had a couple of problems after upgrading to 2.0 too, but upgrading VMware Tools solved them.

Yup. Doing that locked the machine up.

So had to force quit and restart it. Tried it again. Finally got the new VMware Tools to install.

Then had really jittery mouse movements (sometime jumping 1/2 screen on its own). Stuttery sound. Immense memory footprint.

All round bad experience. Which is too bad, since I've been super-happy with v1.1.3

.../j

kb244 · Sep 20th, 2008, 12:40 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by neufelni
	Did you upgrade VMware Tools in your Windows VM? I had a couple of problems after upgrading to 2.0 too, but upgrading VMware Tools solved them.

Yea I was thinking that too.

kb244 · Sep 20th, 2008, 12:41 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by jcharlesworth
	Yup. Doing that locked the machine up. So had to force quit and restart it. Tried it again. Finally got the new VMware Tools to install. Then had really jittery mouse movements (sometime jumping 1/2 screen on its own). Stuttery sound. Immense memory footprint. All round bad experience. Which is too bad, since I've been super-happy with v1.1.3 .../j

... what version of Windows, and did it actually upgrade the hardware and all that?

I been running just fine with it on both XP Pro and Vista Ultimate.

Fox · Sep 22nd, 2008, 07:47 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by kb244
	I noticed virtualbox even 2.0.2 cannot use your bootcamp partition like Parrallel and VmWare can. Also I noticed VirtualBox is faster, but the screen has drawing problems when resizing or updating. But its simple and fast.

I also noticed the slow screen redraw on VB. Part of the problem is the low amount of memory it gives the virtual video card (8mb by default). You can up this after you turn the virtual machine off. But even after giving it 64mb, I find the screen redraw to be slow. Hopefully they'll fix that in the next upgrade.

kb244 · Sep 22nd, 2008, 09:23 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Fox
	I also noticed the slow screen redraw on VB. Part of the problem is the low amount of memory it gives the virtual video card (8mb by default). You can up this after you turn the virtual machine off. But even after giving it 64mb, I find the screen redraw to be slow. Hopefully they'll fix that in the next upgrade.

It'd be nice use, but that was one of the things I noticed too (the video memory selection). I don't think VmWare gives more than 16 to 32 by default on it's virtual hardware (not sure but maybe more when you turn on DirectX/3D support).

Course being that its free and that its from sun microsystem they probably tacked the functionality first and the visuals later because to a developer for example the redraw doesn't seem quite that bad if the rest of the software is moving along without a problem.

zlinger · Sep 22nd, 2008, 10:57 PM

VMWare 2.0 has made my MacBook Air run much hotter with Windows XP. With the version before, I had no issues and the fan would idle at the lowest setting. Now the processor gets up to 85c. I will experiment with some of the settings.

ahMEmon · Sep 23rd, 2008, 10:14 AM

I have both and although VM Ware Fusion does run faster than Parallels, I find that I cannot set up shared folders in XP, and even if I get far enough to actually activate the feature, Windows Explorer crashes everytime I try to access a shared folder.

I also notice that I cannot drag and drop files and folders from one desktop to the other, and YES, I have installed VM Ware tools.

Parallels just works, albeit a tad slower than Fusion, but it just works.

screature · Sep 23rd, 2008, 10:33 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by ahMEmon
	I have both and although VM Ware Fusion does run faster than Parallels, I find that I cannot set up shared folders in XP, and even if I get far enough to actually activate the feature, Windows Explorer crashes everytime I try to access a shared folder. I also notice that I cannot drag and drop files and folders from one desktop to the other, and YES, I have installed VM Ware tools. Parallels just works, albeit a tad slower than Fusion, but it just works.

No problems here with shared folders in XP Pro. Fusion just works for me.

kb244 · Sep 23rd, 2008, 02:12 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by zlinger
	VMWare 2.0 has made my MacBook Air run much hotter with Windows XP. With the version before, I had no issues and the fan would idle at the lowest setting. Now the processor gets up to 85c. I will experiment with some of the settings.

You tried turning off a few things like removing serial port and other supported hardware by default. (ie: on mine I remove the printer, serial ports and so forth that I wouldn't need virtualized). Also try knocking the option of 2 processor down to 1 if you have that.

Other than upgrading the hardware drivers (you did upgrade the Vmware Tools, correct?) did you change anything else with the XP installation?

kb244 · Sep 23rd, 2008, 02:13 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by ahMEmon
	I have both and although VM Ware Fusion does run faster than Parallels, I find that I cannot set up shared folders in XP, and even if I get far enough to actually activate the feature, Windows Explorer crashes everytime I try to access a shared folder. I also notice that I cannot drag and drop files and folders from one desktop to the other, and YES, I have installed VM Ware tools. Parallels just works, albeit a tad slower than Fusion, but it just works.

VmWare "Just works" for me just fine with drag/drop and I don't even bother to setup the shared folder. I also much prefer VmWare's unity mode than Parrallel's intergrated mode.

But to each their own as not everyone is going to have the same results. Also if its version 2.0 I noticed the biggest problem is while people have Vmware tools installed, they forget they need to upgrade the tools once they migrate from the older version to 2.0, as VmWare doesn't always warn you that the tools are out of date for the new drivers.

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Sep 22nd, 2008, 10:57 PM	#26
zlinger Full Citizen Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 909	VMWare 2.0 has made my MacBook Air run much hotter with Windows XP. With the version before, I had no issues and the fan would idle at the lowest setting. Now the processor gets up to 85c. I will experiment with some of the settings.

Sep 23rd, 2008, 10:14 AM	#27
ahMEmon Full Citizen Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 99	I have both and although VM Ware Fusion does run faster than Parallels, I find that I cannot set up shared folders in XP, and even if I get far enough to actually activate the feature, Windows Explorer crashes everytime I try to access a shared folder. I also notice that I cannot drag and drop files and folders from one desktop to the other, and YES, I have installed VM Ware tools. Parallels just works, albeit a tad slower than Fusion, but it just works.