VMware Fusion Reviews

Easy to use but it's so powerful in case you need to customize it.

I was thinking about price, but they offer you a free-version for non-commercial use. So, there is nothing.

I can test on different scenarios (Win-OSX-Linux) without buying additional hardware.

I like the seamless integration of VMWare into Mac. I like how you can have both the host and guest running concurrently. I have used a few other similar products, but I liked VMWare the best.

No real complaints about using the product

I have a Microsoft Access application which I use, and since Microsoft does ot support Access for MAc, this was the way for me to get around it.

I moved from Parallels to VMware Fusion because it had more features and a significant cost savings for the company. I also found it to be much easier to deploy to our macOS fleet than Parallels

The only thing I found to be a bit trickier to set up in VMware Fusion is the CPU/RAM/SSD settings. Parallels had some handy templates when setting up a VM for the first time. VMware was missing that which wasn't ideal but I could still do it (just a learning curve and they may have fixed this by now).

Whether you are migrating from an existing PC to a VM, from another VM software like Parallels to VMware Fusion or starting from scratch, VMware Fusion is really simple to set up and get going!

In our company, 95% of the office was on macOS however, we had a few users who still needed PC environments set up and needed them to be ones that could still detect hardware plugged in like a flash drive. Fusion allowed for cross-platform compatibility with MacBook Pro hardware to the PC environment on the VM.

I started using Fusion 3.0 under corporate license to run ad-hoc tests before release candidate build; my job was to perform the very final check to ensure each product meets regional specific requirements and satisfy customization requests. One product project could contain a few dozen builds; therefore, it would require extra hardware resources and time-consuming tasks if running the tests on physical machines. Fusion's presence saved me from preparing the testing environment, switching to another snapshot only one click away. This long-life application is still popularly available and is free for non commercial use, perfect for a personal blogger, NPO contributor, and goodwill-related use. This current version is 12 and is very stable and light. Anyone can access settings easily and configure a virtual machine without an advanced tech background. Perfect for all levels.

It's hard for me to dislike this app; I would only reckon it's a bit inconvenient when its release launched around the same date as the macOS; it'd be confusing to identify which one caused/triggered an incident of the crash.

Fusion for macOS is a long-life application for building virtual machines. Fusion supports major operating systems and helps users create a new virtual machine with only a few clicks, it also features advanced configuration and checking so users will not destroy the physical device and operation by accident. Retrieving snapshot is fast and secured, the graphical timestamp is available, which makes it understandable for beginners and all levels.

I no longer needed to procure physical machines to run some lower priority tasks; maintains is simple, space saver comparing to have a dozen machines in the same space. And most of them all, time and cost saved.

I'm a fan of MacOSX but it has its drawbacks like not all software being compatible with MacOSX so there are only two options for us, using a Virtual Machine with Windows on it or using another PC to use the programs that are not compatible with MacOSX. Fusion just makes it easier to run a Virtual Machine (or several) so any program not available in MacOSX can be run without needing to be really good with computers.

The default settings are just bad unless you download an already made Virtual Machine, having 2GB on RAM and 1 core in 2021 is just too little, almost every computer(especially a Mac one) has at least 8GB of RAM and it's a lot more common to have 16GB or 32GB and 4 or more processors so even if it works out of the box you are creating a slow and clunky user experience but as soon as you change those settings everything works really well so it's just a little downfall.

It's a really good tool if you need to run programs not available on MacOSX.

Running Linux and Windows Virtual Machines

Mac is great and has advantages over Windows in some areas but by itself, it's not enough to be a work laptop, some programs that I need are only available on Windows, luckily for me VMware Fusion is like running a native Windows installation 95% of the time. I can run programs that I need like Visio without requiring another PC or needing to use Bootcamp, I have it set up so when I open the VM it goes to my secondary monitor and it is like working with 2 computers but with a shared mouse and keyboard, the integration is really good compared to other VM solutions.

Anything that relies on hardware is a big no go, running BitLocker on Fusion works but keeps my laptop like a big grill since it relies on hardware acceleration that for obvious reasons isn't available in a Virtual Machine.

The time saved by using Fusion is well worth the license price

Running Virtual Machines: Windows, and Linux.

Macbooks are fantastic devices in almost every area except price and software support, with VMware Fusion you can run almost any Windows or Linux program easily without needing to do a reboot, I need to use Visio for my work and sadly is a Windows only program so with Fusion I can run it without needing another laptop or needing to reboot my machine to run another OS

98% of the time everything works as expected, but 2% of the time it just won't work or do a different thing under a VM than if run natively. Since I do have another lapto with Windows installed I just switch devices if that happens, it is not often but the time it would take to fix the issue is probably a lot longer than just booting up and installing a software in another laptop

If you have a macbook and need windows this is the best option so far

Lately just running Windows 10 and using it to run Visio since I need to pass my network designs to a format that is more standarized accross industries

It works as expected 97% of the time, with the exception of some Wireless Tools that some coworkers need and some drivers every other software worked exactly as expected. It can even run a separate network connection for every VM, really useful when the VM has intranet permissions but not the host machine. Good general support for everything to make it seamless to copy, paste, and transfer between host and VM and even between VMs.

It runs toasty even on a cool day if you have anything intensive on the machine and most important you can't use hardware acceleration for things that normally benefit from it, like BitLocker so if you have to protect the VM with BitLocker that means that is going to run on software and that is CPU intensive.

A good alternative to a second laptop most of the time

Opening and using Windows Programs that are unavailable on MacOSX

It runs Windows, Linux, switches, routers, and WLCs without issues or extra config, as long as you know what you are doing it's really easy to follow through with the configuration and if you have VMs already configured importing them is really easy.

Another great thing is that you can set restore points in case you want to try something that you are not sure if it is going to work, restoring takes some minutes, but makes sure you aren't wasting your time.

It can get my Macbook really hot even when the only thing that I'm doing in the VM is idling like in the native OS, it sets the cores to run at higher speed all the time. I don't matter if that happens in a Desktop PC but that means that if not careful it can drain my battery really quickly while idling with a VM open, besides that I think Fusion is pretty much perfect for what it does.

If you already have a Mac and need a VM software spend the price in Fusion, it's worth it.

Installing, importing and running VMs of different OSes.

It can emulate network devices, windows and linux machines without issues as long as you have cpu, ram and storage available. It's especially good when dealing with interactions between devices when dedicated network cards are available for each Operating system available.

This might be a fault of the software itself or an intentional blocking of some hardware vendors, but there are some apps that aren't possible to run in a VM and the drivers won't run even when using a dedicated network card so a separate device is needed to access some applications

The cpu usage can get the computer quite hot, even when just idling in the VM.

It's the best software to run VMs without thinking a lot about it, virtualbox is another good option and free but it takes more time to setup, so choose your tradeoff

Using software that I need to use and isn't available on MacOSX, and testing network device configurations.