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[Mick]

According to Infoweek VMWare released a closed beta of their Intel Mac product, dubbed Fusion about 2 weeks ago.

Anybody got lucky to be in the first round of beta testers? Curious about Mac OS guest support and maybe 3D graphics so Vista would run Aero.


--Mick

[xtraktion]

I just downloaded the beta from vmware and am running it now.

First impressions: Kernel panic after trying to close it without installing an OS.

1.83 GHz Macbook
2.0 GB DDR2 667MHz RAM

[asap18]

im going to try and find this now, thanks for the tip

can u use vm images from vmware workstation too?

[calmesal]

xtraktion, on Nov 3 2006, 05:35 AM, said:

I just downloaded the beta from vmware and am running it now.

First impressions: Kernel panic after trying to close it without installing an OS.

1.83 GHz Macbook
2.0 GB DDR2 667MHz RAM

where did you get it?
A link please!

[AriX]

please give us a link!

[curlyboy]

http://www.vmware.co...signupform.html

[CoMzY]

I have signed up with two emails and still no mail, it says I have to wait until it goes public, anyone who have a direct link for DL?

It ownes parallels i my eyes.

[calmesal]

curlyboy, on Nov 3 2006, 10:27 PM, said:

http://www.vmware.co...signupform.html

This is not a news!
I have signed up fot more than two month ago, still no public beta.

[domino]

yeppers, fusion was just released a few hours ago. ~81mb and should be installed on my setup shortly.

[CoMzY]

Is it possible for me to get a copy ? Doesn't have the patience to wait until it goes public :S

[Colonel]

Yeah, I'd also love to give it a try.

[AriX]

I've got a link PM Me

[Virtualball]

The Green Demon is learning Nucleur "Fusion" now.

(Yeah, I know it sucked but you get the point)

[velayo]

Got it from the green demon and it doesn't work. I can't install anything or start pre installed machines.

[Colonel]

I was able to install it on my Hack with Pacifist. I can create a new VM, but when I try to  start it up, i just get a white screen. See the pic. Could there be some sort of check that vmware has to see if you're using a real Mac?

[Korrupted]

I tried to boot the osx86 dvd(10.4.8) in osx86(10.4.8 kernel) and it kernel panicked my iHack.  The VM turned on just fine though. :S

[Mick]

Does Fusion co-exist with Parallels? Don't want to blow up my hole machine or the Parallels installation by installing the beta.

--Mick

[seebaru]

I, too, get a kernel panic as Fusion nears the end of the install.

After restarting, I'm able to launch Fusion and appear to be able to create a new VM. However, the VM creation wizard never reaches the settings screen (pressing "Continue" instead of "Finish"), and instead launches this new VM to a blank white screen.

The toolbar of the new VM window contains a single, left-aligned tool (expand to fullscreen), which I reckon is a symptom of the partial install. Meanwhile, there are no options available from any menu for changing VM settings.

[Menno]

I have downloaded it, and booted up the installation of mandriva 2007 powerpack. I won't install it, because i have no need of a linux install . This is on my Hackintosh.

http://www.terlaak.name/vmware.jpg

[urig-herb]

The vmware installation gave me an error. But suprisingly the app started and right now I'm installing xp from a disk image. It runs very fast und everything looks good so far.