Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 22nd Dec 2006 21:09 UTC, submitted by Andrei Dorofeev
VMware today released a beta version of the new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion. It supports a wide variety of x86/x64 guests, and is cross-compatible with virtual machines created in VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware Server and VMware Infrastructure 3. It supports Virtual SMP, drag & drop of files between OS X and virtual machines, and supports all USB 2.0 devices. Even devices that do not have drivers for OS X will work in a virtual machine.
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I was a part of the private Beta. I gave very lengthy feedback to VMWare (who didn't even bother to give even an automated response).
In summary - doesn't hold a candle to Parallels. Whilst I know that VMWare's virtualisation engine is top notch (being a VMWare user on Windows), the feature set, UI and design is more like the first beta of Parallels, and not the Coherence Mode / BootCamp Booting / App-Switching toting latest Parallels Beta.
VMWare's best bet is the Enterprise market (which I assume is their stance to begin with)