Steven S. Ross

My first impressions of the latest version of VMware Fusion 2 are great. Its really the simplicity of things where Fusion 2 shines. Cut and paste no longer requires that I switch keys between CMD and CTRL on the mac. Making working with my VM much more seamless (at least this is my experience with Windows XP Pro). Not sure if that works on all operating systems. The suspend / restore functionality is much much faster now too. That saves a lot of time when you need it. I’m sure if I had plenty of memory to spare this wouldn’t be that big of a deal but, since I am on a Core Duo box and I can only run 2GB then it makes a big difference not having to wait so long to free up some memory. Fusion also supports multiple monitors, built in camera and bluetooth now on my Macbook Pro.

Here are a few issues I have run into, spaces support seems a bit buggy when running in Unity mode. It would also be nice if that when you run things in Unity that the icons that you can cmd-tab to would somehow have a mark that they are your VM and not any of your regular mac apps. Hopefully they will work out these bugs in the beta phase.

I’ve only been using it for about a day and a half so as I run into new features I’ll be sure to post them.