{"id":92,"date":"2007-03-02T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion-10b2-beta-2\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T20:50:58","slug":"vmware-fusion-10b2-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion-10b2-beta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare fusion 1.0b2 (Beta 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/icon\/vmware_fusion.jpg\" class=\"alignright\"  alt=\"VMWare Fusion for Mac\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion\">VMWare Fusion<\/a> 1.0b2 (Beta 2) has been released by VMWare.  It can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/beta\/fusion\/\">here<\/a>.  VMWare Fusion for Mac only runs on Intel-based Macs.<\/p>\n<p>This beta adds &#8220;Experimental 3-D graphics support&#8221;, which we are guessing led to the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/video-of-3d-gameacceleration-on-vmware-fusion\/\">this video<\/a> that shows a 3D Windows game being played under VMWare and Mac OS X.   This is big, seeing as how Parallels Desktop does not have this feature. A Snapshot feature has been added, which archives &#8220;known good states&#8221; of your virtual machines.  Networking and Microsoft Windows Vista support has also been improved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Notes:<\/strong><br \/>\nNew and Improved Features in Beta 2<br \/>\n    * Experimental 3-D graphics support \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Play a selection of DirectX 8.1 games in Windows XP Service Pack 2 virtual machines.<br \/>\n    * Snapshot feature \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Roll back your virtual machine to a known good state when something goes wrong in your virtual machine\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor example, when your virtual machine picks up a virus, or when a software upgrade causes problems.<br \/>\n    * Improved networking \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Automatically bridge to the computer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s primary network interface.<br \/>\n      Full support for Airport wireless networking, including virtual machines behind a NAT firewall and bridged to the local Airport network.<br \/>\n      Support for up to ten virtual network interfaces<br \/>\n    * Improved Microsoft Vista support \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Support for Microsoft Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions.<br \/>\n      Complete VMware Tools support for Microsoft Vista including copy\/paste, dragging and dropping files, shared folders, and screen resizing.<br \/>\n    * Improved hardware editor \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Add additional virtual hard drives to a virtual machine for needed capacity.<br \/>\n      View the physical computer&#8217;s battery status in the virtual machine.<br \/>\n    * Improved full screen mode \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Support for plugging and unplugging displays while virtual machines are in full screen mode.<br \/>\n      Improved usability: an on-screen tip shows how to enter and exit full screen mode easily.<br \/>\n    * Experimental support for Mac OS X Leopard \u00e2\u20ac\u201d You can now install and run VMware Fusion on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Support is experimental because Mac OS X 10.5 is not yet released. VMware Fusion will support the release version of OS X 10.5 in the final VMware Fusion release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bugs Fixed in Beta 2<\/strong><br \/>\n    * Improved keyboard and mouse support \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Third-party graphics tablets, keyboards, and mice no longer interfere with keyboard and mouse input.<br \/>\n      Support for plugging and unplugging input devices while virtual machines are running.<br \/>\n      Support for using VMware Fusion with remote access applications such as VNC, Synergy, and Remote Desktop.<br \/>\n    * Improved CD\/DVD support<br \/>\n    * Better support for mounting and unmounting discs in virtual machines<br \/>\n    * Quicken Scheduler corrupts keyboard and mouse input in virtual machines \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Offer workaround to disable Quicken Scheduler when it is detected.<br \/>\n* Various other bug fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMWare Fusion 1.0b2 (Beta 2) has been released by VMWare. It can be downloaded here. VMWare Fusion for Mac only runs on Intel-based Macs. This beta &#8230; <a title=\"VMWare fusion 1.0b2 (Beta 2)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion-10b2-beta-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about VMWare fusion 1.0b2 (Beta 2)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}