Download Fusion 4
VMware Fusion 4.01 - Download?
VMware Fusion 4 is now available for download. You can purchase and download Fusion 4.01 directly from VMware today. But after waiting so frustratingly long for a Fusion 4 upgrade, it’s best to compare your options at this point.
Sure you could finally download the Fusion 4 upgrade for $49.99, but Parallels offers a $29.99 competitive upgrade for Fusion customers. Nice!
Is Fusion 4 a rushed release? Was there even a public beta version? Should you buy and download Fusion 4? Can anyone share any compelling info about Fusion 4 this week besides saying it’s the “best?”
Many customers who purchased Fusion 4.01 are already looking forward to a 4.x upgrade because of Fusion 4.01 reliability issues with mixed and various bugs as reported in the VMware Community
- VMware Fusion 4 – MSN invisible text
- VMware Fusion v4 seems very rushed
- Fusion 4 – half baked
- Fusion 4 upgraded and now no networking
- Fusion 4 Network and USB Problems
- VMware Fusion 4.0.1 Installation/First Run Failure
- MacBook, OSX Lion, Fusion v4, Win 7 screen flickering and corruption with 3D enabled
Besides Fusion 4.01 reliability issues, some particular pain points have surfaced -
- How are we supposed to install lion in guest os if we got it preinstalled on macbook pro
- Upgrade price from Fusion 3 to 4 or just the discount available
- Annoyances in Fusion 4
So, finally, what’s the Fusion 4 main sales pitch?
Turbocharged and refined from the inside-out for the ultimate Windows on Mac experience. VMware Fusion 4 is recommended for home users, students and business professionals who are looking for the easiest, fastest and most reliable way to run Windows programs on their Macs without rebooting.
Turbocharged and 3 audiences targeted with 3 superlatives – very neat. While the message is what we need to hear (refined from the inside-out), this is very disappointing. I want to know about Lion-related feature support, Lion full screen Windows support, graphics and 3D performance, and if I can use my MacBook camera in Windows and Lion OS X. Parallels 7 has all these covered now. Are we going to have to wait further for Fusion 4.1 for stability and performance as VMware Fusion 3 users had to wait for VMware Fusion 3.1? We’ll update the Fusion 4 vs. Parallels 7 post with info just as soon as we get it.
And right from the new VMware Fusion 4 box (pictured at the top of this page)
The Easy, Fast and Reliable Way to Switch to a Mac and Run Windows without Rebooting.
This reminds me of the Iomega Jazz & Zip drives (remember those, and their Click of Death?)
There is no substitute for the easy, fast, and reliable data protection you get from Iomega internal and external drives.
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any updates?
Yes, you can get the Fusion 4 download today.
Any news? Still a go for release tomorrow? Still absolutely nothing on their webpage.
Also, I bought 3 with my new MBA last week – I’m assuming I’ll get a free upgrade?
Fusion 4: best in class. Assuming the class is “products not yet shipping, but being lauded as best and decrying their competitors products… which is shipping, and has a lot of impressive ‘must have’ features”.
I hope VM Fusion 4 comes out tomorrow, because I stupidly installed lion and now my vm runs like crap. The fan runs constantly, the mouse jerks all over the place.
If its not out tomorrow, hello parallels.
Thanks for the info. Going to buy my vmware fusion upgrade now!
It’s out – I wonder how good it is
VMware Fusion 4 doesn’t seem to have a real Lion fullscreen. Parallels 7 instead has a real lion fullscreen mode and feels in this mode nicer (besides two monitor setups).
Cant install vmware tools to ubuntu or fedora guests, could not find component on upgrade server…
Chop chop vmware, was looking forward to testing this
Fusion absolutely had a beta of v4, you just had to know where to go to sign up for it (i.e., http://www.vmware.com/betaprogram/FUS-2011-BETA). It’s built to support Lion as a host (works great for me). VMWare officially supports running Lion as a guest too: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2005334&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=219740017&stateId=0 0 219738265
Yes, all this is described in the VMware 4 Features post. The question about Fusion 4 being rushed is because their beta program was private and relatively short.
Unfortunately this thing has a serious bug. The new VMWare Tools graphics driver basically breaks the font rendering of IE9, if you load a page in IE9 in a Windows 7 vm, you will see only images and colors, but no text.
A short workaround is to disable the d3d capabilities in the vm settings entirely.
Wrong
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk192/mj_thompson/screenshot_01.png
No OpenGL Support for Linux!
Werpu: I can use IE9 in Windows 7 Pro under Fusion 4 with no problems at all. Not sure what the issue is with yours.
Within hours of 4.0 being released, 4.01 was released and that still has a few issues. For the most parts some things seem to work very well. The VM tools seemed difficult to install, but eventually it worked. IE9 scrolling is jerky and not smooth. The user interface seems a little sticky at times. Some areas are much faster. I get some screen flicker occasionally. Overall a big step in the right direction and hopefully 4.02, 4.03 and 4.04 are release quickly as the rough edges are smoothed out. Generally, it appears that 3.13 was better for me once an application was open. Still need to work for as extended period to get a better feel. Suspending is much faster and resuming is a little faster.
whoopeeeeeeeeeeeeee
suck it parallels this release kicked ur ass
just waiting for my serial key to arrive now…so glad I got vmware subscription when i bought fusion 3
Wow, glad you’re excited!
switched back to version 3.1.3. with 4.0.1 aero preview gets corrupt on new and existing VMs.
see also http://666kb.com/i/bx0fyynoltrd6531a.jpg
Wrong.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk192/mj_thompson/screenshot_01.png
wrong.
it’s a bug. when you not using an english setting for number formats then aero and other things will get corrupted.
see also:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/329215
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/328877
wrong.
fine for me with other number formats….now go back to programming parallels 8!
Ouch. After reading about all these issues people are having, there seems to be no doubt that the folks at VMWare panicked when Parallels got released to excellent reviews and rushed out this half-baked upgrade. Glad I didn’t waste money on it.
We absolutely did not ‘panic’ when Parallels released 7. Nor did we ‘rush’ things.
Our release schedule was set a long time ago, before Parallels 6 was even released.
Fusion 4 has been in development for over a year at this point, so if one considers that rushed okay, but I’m confident to say that we put a tremendous amount of effort into this release and at no point was anything pushed forward before completion for any reason.
We don’t operate like that… We make sure it’s right, and when it is we release.
Fair enough. I will keep an open mind.
Yes, you should. Since you obviously work for Parallels, can you tell them to offer free upgrades for Fusion 4 users? Then I might switch xD
Actually probably not..
I have noticed that the performance isn’t that much better with 4.0.1, and that Unity works even worse.
Cool story bro. Now go back to programming Parallels 8!
VMWare tools work on windows 8 dev preview!
I’m using parallels but not happy with it, due to many issues.
I’m running mac Snow Leopard, don’t plan on upgrading to Lion due to not being able to run Quicken 7 on it.
Parallels issues are:
1. Almost every time I start up Parallels, the Hard drives are switched to HD’s that don’t exist. Like a 0.2 gig drive, or a 108,456gig HD.
2. Tech support tried many times to resolve this, but it still does it.
They did try though, even taking control of my Mac to do so.
After reading this forum I am not sure tech support for Fusion would even try??
also, in this forum Matt is very quick to accuse anyone who who has issues with Fusion 4, of being employed at Parallels. That makes me wonder where HE works? VMware?
All things considered, these report and Matt’s mean spirited attitude leave much to be desired, and a real put-off for buying this version of Fusion.
Particularly since in the past when I’ve tried the trial version of Fusion 3, it failed completely to work either to migrate from another PC or with Windows 7 on Boot Camp. Tech support blamed OEM versions of windows as the problem.
Whereas Parallels has no problem with it, just get a pop-up message occasionally in windows that “this version of windows may not be legal”.
Then following the rather convoluted process to determine if it is legal always works.
BTW MATT, I do NOT work for Parallels, I’m an automotive tech.
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