Congratulations!

[Valid RSS] This is a valid RSS feed.

Recommendations

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

Source: http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/feed

  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
  2. xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
  3. xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
  4. xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  5. xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
  6. xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
  7. xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
  8. >
  9.  
  10. <channel>
  11. <title>VMware Fusion Blog</title>
  12. <atom:link href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
  13. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/</link>
  14. <description>Insight and highlights from the VMware Fusion Team for running Windows on your Mac</description>
  15. <lastBuildDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:53:56 +0000</lastBuildDate>
  16. <language>en-US</language>
  17. <sy:updatePeriod>
  18. hourly </sy:updatePeriod>
  19. <sy:updateFrequency>
  20. 1 </sy:updateFrequency>
  21. <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2</generator>
  22. <item>
  23. <title>A New Chapter</title>
  24. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/12/a-new-chapter.html</link>
  26. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  27. <pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
  28. <category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>
  29. <category><![CDATA[Workstation]]></category>
  30. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=3125</guid>
  31.  
  32. <description><![CDATA[<p>Now that our acquisition by Broadcom has successfully completed, the integration into our new home is well underway. Our new Senior Vice President and General Manager Krish Prasad, who has been a long-time Desktop Hypervisor supporter, today published some news about how we&#8217;ll be transforming the VMware business within our new home at Broadcom. But &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/12/a-new-chapter.html">Continued</a></p>
  33. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/12/a-new-chapter.html">A New Chapter</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  34. ]]></description>
  35. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/12/broadcom-vmware-news-story-1280x640-1.jpg"><img decoding="async" width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/12/broadcom-vmware-news-story-1280x640-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-3130" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/12/broadcom-vmware-news-story-1280x640-1.jpg 1280w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/12/broadcom-vmware-news-story-1280x640-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/12/broadcom-vmware-news-story-1280x640-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/12/broadcom-vmware-news-story-1280x640-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/12/broadcom-vmware-news-story-1280x640-1-600x300.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></a></figure>
  36.  
  37.  
  38.  
  39. <p>Now that our acquisition by Broadcom has successfully completed, the integration into our new home is well underway. Our new Senior Vice President and General Manager Krish Prasad, who has been a long-time Desktop Hypervisor supporter, <a href="https://news.vmware.com/stories/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation">today published some news </a>about how we&#8217;ll be transforming the VMware business within our new home at Broadcom.</p>
  40.  
  41.  
  42.  
  43. <p>But one big question that we&#8217;ve been hearing from many of our customers is &#8220;What will become of the Fusion and Workstation product groups?&#8221;</p>
  44.  
  45.  
  46.  
  47. <p>I&#8217;m happy to finally be able to answer that with some good news!</p>
  48.  
  49.  
  50.  
  51. <p>In a nutshell: <strong>VMware by Broadcom is committed to our focus on the desktop hypervisor products and platform, today and into the future.</strong></p>
  52.  
  53.  
  54.  
  55. <p>Users will continue to be able to purchase and use our favorite desktop hypervisor apps the same way they have been for the past several years. As well, folks will continue to be able to download and use the &#8220;Free for Personal Use&#8221; editions of Fusion Player and Workstation Player the same way they did previously.</p>
  56.  
  57.  
  58.  
  59. <p>We&#8217;re thrilled to have the opportunity to keep the momentum going within the VMware Cloud Foundation Division of Broadcom that our small but nimble team has been able to deliver this year. We brought some amazing features to the product centering around dramatically improving our Windows 11 for Arm support on Macs with Apple silicon. <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/10/fusion-13-5-is-live.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">With Fusion 13.5</a> we&#8217;ve made not only getting a copy of Windows 11 for Arm easy to do, but we&#8217;ve gone the extra step to add all the necessary drivers for Networking and Graphics before installing the OS to give you the most natural &#8220;Out Of Box Experience&#8221; of any desktop hypervisor platform. It&#8217;s just like opening the lid on a brand new PC.</p>
  60.  
  61.  
  62.  
  63. <p>Added to that our support for DirectX 11 Graphics for native arm64 and emulated x86/x64 apps, ultra-high performance drag-drop and copy-paste, Fusion is the best it&#8217;s ever been.</p>
  64.  
  65.  
  66.  
  67. <p>Meanwhile with <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2023/10/workstation-17-5-pro-and-player-are-now-live.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Workstation on PCs we continue to refine the VMware hypervisor platform</a> at immense scale with new virtual hardware capabilities, improved security features, and important updates for supporting new versions of Linux and Windows.</p>
  68.  
  69.  
  70.  
  71. <p>Because the Desktop Hypervisor apps share the same code as ESXi, they continue to improve each other, combining their strengths with the breadth and reach of the community. Workstation makes ESXi the best it can be by supporting an immeasurable number of scenarios and use cases and allowing us to test new capabilities, while ESXi helps make Workstation the leading desktop hypervisor app thanks to 20+ years of investment in enterprise reliability built into the platform.</p>
  72.  
  73.  
  74.  
  75. <p>All of this is in support of our continued effort to deliver the world&#8217;s leading hypervisor platform for the desktop and the data center. It&#8217;s only going to get better from here!</p>
  76.  
  77.  
  78.  
  79. <p>We&#8217;re all so very proud of what our small team has been able to achieve in the face of all kinds of challenges, so it brings me tremendous joy to share this message.</p>
  80.  
  81.  
  82.  
  83. <p>Happy Holidays my friends, thanks for being along for the ride!</p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/12/a-new-chapter.html">A New Chapter</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  84. ]]></content:encoded>
  88. </item>
  89. <item>
  90. <title>Fusion 13.5 Is Live!</title>
  91. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/10/fusion-13-5-is-live.html</link>
  93. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  94. <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
  95. <category><![CDATA[Apple silicon]]></category>
  96. <category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category>
  97. <category><![CDATA[Release]]></category>
  98. <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
  99. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=3113</guid>
  100.  
  101. <description><![CDATA[<p>VMware Fusion 13.5 Brings Exciting New Features for Running Windows 11 on Macs with Apple Silicon We are thrilled to announce the launch of VMware Fusion 13.5 Pro and VMware Fusion 13.5 Player for Mac. This latest release brings some incredibly exciting new capabilities that dramatically improve the experience of running Windows 11 on Macs &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/10/fusion-13-5-is-live.html">Continued</a></p>
  102. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/10/fusion-13-5-is-live.html">Fusion 13.5 Is Live!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  103. ]]></description>
  104. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 class="wp-block-heading">VMware Fusion 13.5 Brings Exciting New Features for Running Windows 11 on Macs with Apple Silicon</h2>
  105.  
  106.  
  107.  
  108. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="576" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-1024x576.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3118" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-1024x576.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-300x169.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-768x432.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-1536x864.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-2048x1152.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-752x423.png 752w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-576x324.png 576w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/10/Fusion-135-blog-hero2-600x338.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure>
  109.  
  110.  
  111.  
  112. <ul>
  113. <li>For users on Fusion 13 already, you can update by clicking &#8220;Check For Updates&#8221; within the app.</li>
  114.  
  115.  
  116.  
  117. <li>If you&#8217;re still on Fusion 12, head on over to store.vmware.com and upgrade to Fusion 13 today to get going right away.</li>
  118.  
  119.  
  120.  
  121. <li>Want to try Fusion 13 Pro free for 30 days? <a href="http://vmware.com/go/tryfusion">Head over here!</a></li>
  122.  
  123.  
  124.  
  125. <li>Want to use Fusion 13 Player for Personal Use? <a href="http://vmware.com/go/get-fusionplayer">Get your Free Key here</a>!</li>
  126. </ul>
  127.  
  128.  
  129.  
  130. <p>We are thrilled to announce the launch of VMware Fusion 13.5 Pro and VMware Fusion 13.5 Player for Mac. This latest release brings some incredibly exciting new capabilities that dramatically improve the experience of running Windows 11 on Macs powered by Apple silicon.</p>
  131.  
  132.  
  133.  
  134. <p>As a longtime partner of Microsoft, VMware is fully committed to supporting Windows 11 for Arm on the new generation of Macs. With Fusion 13.5, we have taken huge strides toward delivering a seamless, intuitive, out-of-the-box experience for running Windows that feels right at home on these amazing new Macs.</p>
  135.  
  136.  
  137.  
  138. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Breakthrough VMware Tools</h3>
  139.  
  140.  
  141.  
  142. <p>The star of the show is of course the new VMware Tools experience. With full 3D support for emulated 32-bit, 64-bit and arm64-native graphics, Fusion 13.5 performs like never before. In addition, the new VMware Tools installer adds ultra-fast file transfers via drag-and-drop as well as copy-paste for quickly getting files and data between Windows and your Mac. Buttrey smooth auto-fit window resizing, with multi-mon support, rounds out the polished experience making running Windows 11 on the latest Macs a delight.</p>
  143.  
  144.  
  145.  
  146. <p>Release Highlights:</p>
  147.  
  148.  
  149.  
  150. <ul>
  151. <li>Free update for v13 users!</li>
  152.  
  153.  
  154.  
  155. <li>Metal-accelerated DirectX 11 3D graphics support for gaming and CAD apps</li>
  156.  
  157.  
  158.  
  159. <li>Ultra-fast file transfers with drag-and-drop and copy/paste between Mac host and Windows guest</li>
  160.  
  161.  
  162.  
  163. <li>Smooth Window resizing and multi-monitor support with Auto-Fit</li>
  164. </ul>
  165.  
  166.  
  167.  
  168. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Oh, One More Thing&#8230; The All-New &#8220;Get Windows&#8221; Feature</h3>
  169.  
  170.  
  171.  
  172. <p>But we didn’t stop there. We realize that getting Windows 11 for arm can be difficult, so we took it to heart and developed a tool that not only downloads Windows for you, but it will automatically add the necessary drivers needed to support networking and graphics in your virtual machine. Simply open the new virtual machine wizard, choose &#8220;Get Windows&#8221;, select Windows 11, choose your edition and language, and Fusion will automatically download the latest Windows 11 image directly from Microsoft. </p>
  173.  
  174.  
  175.  
  176. <p>We even built in a resume capability, in case your download is interrupted you can restart it without starting over. Once downloaded, you can use it again and again. This saves you the hassle of hunting down the right ISO and provides a streamlined path to getting Windows up and running quickly. </p>
  177.  
  178.  
  179.  
  180. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Out-of-box experience for signing into Microsoft account during Windows setup</h3>
  181.  
  182.  
  183.  
  184. <p>Taken together, these new capabilities deliver a best-in-class solution for running Windows that feels fast, fluid, and tightly integrated with your Mac hardware and OS while retaining that fresh out-of-box experience. You can sign into your Microsoft account during Windows setup to automatically bring your documents and settings along, or even do a more complete migration from an existing PC in the process.</p>
  185.  
  186.  
  187.  
  188. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Enhanced Security and Stability</h3>
  189.  
  190.  
  191.  
  192. <p>Beyond Windows, Fusion 13.5 incorporates other great improvements as well. We’ve implemented a new encryption scheme for enhanced security, updated to the latest OS support across our diverse platform lineup, and squashed countless bugs to provide better stability.</p>
  193.  
  194.  
  195.  
  196. <p>VMware Fusion has long held a treasured spot in the hearts of Mac users for its revolutionary ability to run Windows and other operating systems seamlessly on the Mac. With this release, we feel we’ve recaptured that magic at a whole new level for the exciting new generation of Apple silicon Macs.</p>
  197.  
  198.  
  199.  
  200. <p>Whether you rely on Windows for gaming, development, design, or productivity, Fusion 13.5 Pro and Player are the simplest, fastest, and most integrated way to run Windows 11 on your Mac that we&#8217;ve ever delivered. We hope it&#8217;s as much a delight to use as it was to develop!</p>
  201.  
  202.  
  203.  
  204. <p>Download your 30-day trial and get started with Fusion 13.5 today! We can’t wait for you to experience it for yourself.</p>
  205.  
  206.  
  207.  
  208. <p>For users on Fusion 13 already, you can update just by clicking &#8220;Check For Updates&#8221; within the app!</p>
  209.  
  210.  
  211.  
  212. <p>If you&#8217;re still on Fusion 12, head on over to <a href="http://store.vmware.com">store.vmware.com</a> and upgrade to Fusion 13 today to get going right away!<br><strong>Want to try Fusion 13 Pro free for 30 days?</strong> <a href="http://vmware.com/go/tryfusion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Head over here</a></p>
  213.  
  214.  
  215.  
  216. <p><strong>Want to use Fusion 13 Player for Personal Use?</strong> <a href="https://vmware.com/go/get-fusionplayer">Get your Free Key here!</a></p>
  217.  
  218.  
  219.  
  220. <p>Let us know your feedback in the comments below!</p>
  221.  
  222.  
  223.  
  224. <p></p>
  225.  
  226.  
  227.  
  228. <p><a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/13.5/rn/vmware-fusion-135-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Release Notes</a></p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/10/fusion-13-5-is-live.html">Fusion 13.5 Is Live!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  229. ]]></content:encoded>
  233. </item>
  234. <item>
  235. <title>VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2023</title>
  236. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/07/vmware-fusion-2023-tech-preview.html</link>
  238. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  239. <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
  240. <category><![CDATA[3d]]></category>
  241. <category><![CDATA[Apple silicon]]></category>
  242. <category><![CDATA[beta]]></category>
  243. <category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category>
  244. <category><![CDATA[Tech Preview]]></category>
  245. <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
  246. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=3072</guid>
  247.  
  248. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="196" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-300x196.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-300x196.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-1024x668.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-768x501.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-1536x1002.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-2048x1336.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-600x391.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  249. <p>Powering Up Your Macs with Apple Silicon We are thrilled to announce the release of VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2023, marking a significant leap forward for our virtualization software on macOS. With this release, we are dramatically improving our experience with Windows 11 on Fusion on Macs with Apple silicon and the new macOS Sonoma, &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/07/vmware-fusion-2023-tech-preview.html">Continued</a></p>
  250. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/07/vmware-fusion-2023-tech-preview.html">VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2023</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  251. ]]></description>
  252. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="196" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-300x196.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-300x196.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-1024x668.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-768x501.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-1536x1002.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-2048x1336.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-600x391.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-powering-up-your-macs-with-apple-silicon"><strong>Powering Up Your Macs with Apple Silicon</strong></h1>
  253.  
  254.  
  255.  
  256. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="668" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-1024x668.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3082" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-1024x668.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-300x196.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-768x501.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-1536x1002.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-2048x1336.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/Fusion_TP_Hero-600x391.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><sup>A screenshot of VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2023 on macOS Sonoma Beta 3, running the Arm version of Windows 11 to run the 3DMark Firestrike Ultra 4K DirectX 11 benchmark via 64bit x86 emulation, hardware-accelerated by Metal on the Mac&#8230; (<em>Try saying that 3 times fast!)</em></sup></figcaption></figure>
  257.  
  258.  
  259.  
  260. <p>We are <em>thrilled</em> to announce the release of VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2023, marking a significant leap forward for our virtualization software on macOS. </p>
  261.  
  262.  
  263.  
  264. <p>With this release, we are dramatically improving our experience with Windows 11 on Fusion on Macs with Apple silicon and the new macOS Sonoma, while also unveiling subtle new functionality for working with encrypted virtual machines programmatically, as well as security enhancements.</p>
  265.  
  266.  
  267.  
  268. <p>And we want your feedback!</p>
  269.  
  270.  
  271.  
  272. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Full 3D Acceleration on Windows 11 for Arm</h2>
  273.  
  274.  
  275.  
  276. <p>We are particularly excited to introduce full 3D hardware accelerated graphics for Windows 11 on Arm with Fusion on Macs with Apple silicon. This upgrade brings a new level of graphics performance to Fusion, empowering users to run full DirectX 11 3D games and apps with stunning fidelity and speed. The UI is much more responsive, and when combined with autofit, resolution changes are nearly instant.</p>
  277.  
  278.  
  279.  
  280. <p>Now, not only can you take full advantage of your Mac&#8217;s computing power for productivity tasks, but you can also immerse yourself in a breathtaking gaming or multimedia experience. And yes, that includes running emulated 32-bit and 64-bit games!</p>
  281.  
  282.  
  283.  
  284. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3101" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm-1024x640.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm-300x188.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm-768x480.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm-1536x960.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm-2048x1280.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/wddm_windows_arm-600x375.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><sub><em><sup>Note that OpenGL is not yet supported, despite the language in the UI</sup></em></sub> </figcaption></figure>
  285.  
  286.  
  287.  
  288. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>VMware Tools on Apple silicon</strong></h2>
  289.  
  290.  
  291.  
  292. <p>Other more noteworthy bits of the Fusion 2023 Tech Preview include the dramatic improvements in support for the Arm version of Windows 11 on Macs with Apple silicon. This Tech Preview now delivers support for the vast majority of VMware Tools features available for Windows VMs on Fusion for Intel Macs. </p>
  293.  
  294.  
  295.  
  296. <p>We&#8217;ve managed to put together what seems like an impossibly fast drag-and-drop and clipboard sharing between the Mac and Windows 11.</p>
  297.  
  298.  
  299.  
  300. <p>Autofit instantly resizes the guest resolution when you drag the console window. </p>
  301.  
  302.  
  303.  
  304. <p>These and other silent features like time sync work together to make your Windows 11 for Arm VMs feel more at home on the Mac than ever.</p>
  305.  
  306.  
  307.  
  308. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/run_setup_dot_exe.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="905" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/run_setup_dot_exe-1024x905.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3099" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/run_setup_dot_exe-1024x905.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/run_setup_dot_exe-300x265.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/run_setup_dot_exe-768x679.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/run_setup_dot_exe-600x530.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2023/07/run_setup_dot_exe.png 1120w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em><sup>Run setup.exe and you&#8217;re done</sup></em></figcaption></figure>
  309.  
  310.  
  311.  
  312. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Enhancing Security and Control</strong></h2>
  313.  
  314.  
  315.  
  316. <p>Security continues to be at the heart of VMware Fusion. The 2023 Tech Preview brings security fixes, and introduces an improved encryption scheme (XTS instead of CBC) for maximum protection with a reduced performance overhead. VMs that are encrypted via CBC (such as those with TPMs like Windows 11) will be prompted to upgrade to the new encryption cipher at boot. Note that the new scheme is only available with the Fusion 2023 Tech Preview and newer (i.e. the full release slated for later this year), and is not backwards compatible. While we&#8217;ve not encountered any issues with the conversion, we do recommend folks take a full backup or clone of the VM before performing the upgrade. Any errors here should be reported to us via the community right away so we can address them before our full release!</p>
  317.  
  318.  
  319.  
  320. <p>From an operations perspective, Fusion has also expanded our REST API (vmrest) and Command-Line Interface (vmrun) tools to now support encrypted VMs and those with Virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPMs).</p>
  321.  
  322.  
  323.  
  324. <h1 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Call To Action</strong></h1>
  325.  
  326.  
  327.  
  328. <p>How can you participate? It&#8217;s easy, and it&#8217;s free!</p>
  329.  
  330.  
  331.  
  332. <ol>
  333. <li><strong><a href="https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=FUS-TP2023">Download and install the Fusion 2023 Tech Preview</a></strong></li>
  334.  
  335.  
  336.  
  337. <li><a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-2023-Knowledge-Base/VMware-Fusion-Tech-Preview-2023-Testing-Guide/ta-p/2976291">Check out the Testing Guide</a></li>
  338.  
  339.  
  340.  
  341. <li>Install or Upgrade Windows 11 and install VMware Tools! (step by step instructions in the Testing Guide)</li>
  342.  
  343.  
  344.  
  345. <li>Play some games, run some apps, do what you do!</li>
  346.  
  347.  
  348.  
  349. <li>Let us know how it went in the <a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-2023-Tech-Preview/ct-p/fusion2023">Fusion 2023 Tech Preview VMTN Community</a></li>
  350. </ol>
  351.  
  352.  
  353.  
  354. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Even More Coming Soon&#8230;</strong></h2>
  355.  
  356.  
  357.  
  358. <p>These updates are most welcomed, but we&#8217;re still not <em>quite</em> done with what the Fusion has to offer in 2023&#8230; We have a few more exciting features and improvements in the pipeline which are <em>not</em> included in Tech Preview 2023 that we <em>can&#8217;t wait</em> to share! </p>
  359.  
  360.  
  361.  
  362. <p>For now, this is just a sneak peek of what&#8217;s coming in the following months, and we hope to get your feedback on it so and maybe iron out a bug or two along the way!</p>
  363.  
  364.  
  365.  
  366. <p>Stay tuned for more exciting updates as we continue to push the boundaries of what&#8217;s possible with VMware Fusion.</p>
  367.  
  368.  
  369.  
  370. <p>Happy virtualizing!</p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/07/vmware-fusion-2023-tech-preview.html">VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2023</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  371. ]]></content:encoded>
  375. </item>
  376. <item>
  377. <title>Microsoft Now Officially Supports&#160;Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon</title>
  378. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/02/microsoft-now-officially-supports-windows-on-mac-computers-with-apple-silicon.html</link>
  380. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  381. <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
  382. <category><![CDATA[Apple silicon]]></category>
  383. <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
  384. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=3052</guid>
  385.  
  386. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="236" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-300x236.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-300x236.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-1024x805.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-768x604.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-600x472.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio.png 1432w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  387. <p>Exciting news out of Redmond today as Microsoft has expressed commitment to fully support&#160;Windows on Arm in virtual machines&#160;on Apple hardware. After years of development and effort to make Fusion support Windows on Arm _without_ explicit support, and even in the face of ambiguity in several areas, we recently released VMware Fusion 13 with improvements &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/02/microsoft-now-officially-supports-windows-on-mac-computers-with-apple-silicon.html">Continued</a></p>
  388. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/02/microsoft-now-officially-supports-windows-on-mac-computers-with-apple-silicon.html">Microsoft Now Officially Supports&nbsp;Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  389. ]]></description>
  390. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="236" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-300x236.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-300x236.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-1024x805.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-768x604.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-600x472.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio.png 1432w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="805" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-1024x805.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3024" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-1024x805.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-300x236.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-768x604.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio-600x472.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion13-macstudio.png 1432w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Windows 11 on Arm running on a Mac Studio computer with Apple silicon</figcaption></figure>
  391.  
  392.  
  393.  
  394. <p>Exciting news out of Redmond today as Microsoft has expressed <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-using-windows-11-with-mac-computers-with-apple-m1-and-m2-chips-cd15fd62-9b34-4b78-b0bc-121baa3c568c">commitment to fully support&nbsp;Windows on Arm in virtual machines&nbsp;on Apple hardware</a>.</p>
  395.  
  396.  
  397.  
  398. <p>After years of development and effort to make Fusion support Windows on Arm _without_ explicit support, and even in the face of ambiguity in several areas, we recently released VMware Fusion 13 with improvements to specifically support Windows on Arm with Fusion on Macs with Apple silicon.<br>While we&#8217;re proud that we delivered multiple new technologies such as Fast Encryption, a new Virtual Trusted Platform Module, re-built network adapter and other device drivers, and more, we&#8217;re still left with some items that need work.</p>
  399.  
  400.  
  401.  
  402. <p>With today&#8217;s announcement from Microsoft, we&#8217;re thrilled to finally be able move full-speed ahead in offering world-class support for Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon with VMware Fusion via a new partner program to help us along the journey.</p>
  403.  
  404.  
  405.  
  406. <p>Going forward we&#8217;ll be able to get insight and development guidance directly from Microsoft to help us leapfrog the competition and deliver the type of Windows-on-Mac experience that our users would expect from the worlds leader in virtualization.</p>
  407.  
  408.  
  409.  
  410. <p>With millions of worldwide Fusion installations and growing, the momentum for users needing a desktop or laptop solution that is compatible with the Arm ecosystem isn&#8217;t slowing down any time soon.</p>
  411.  
  412.  
  413.  
  414. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="WoABlogAnnoucement-NewSystemReadyCertification">New System Ready Certification</h2>
  415.  
  416.  
  417.  
  418. <p>While things have been a tad slower than we were hoping to see on the Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon front, we haven&#8217;t been just resting. Instead, we used this time to work with Arm, Inc. in certifying <a href="https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/systemready-certification-program/ve">VMware Fusion 13 with the Arm System Ready certification program</a>.</p>
  419.  
  420.  
  421.  
  422. <p><a href="https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/systemready-certification-program">Arm System Ready</a>&nbsp;is a certification program offered by Arm that ensures platform compatibility across physical and virtual hardware environments.</p>
  423.  
  424.  
  425.  
  426. <p>This means that an Operating System that is certified as System Ready will also be able to be ran in a Virtual Machine on VMware Fusion for Apple silicon, as well as other System Ready certified hardware. Users can build applications and more that are destined for a physical device before even having one by using a virtual machine on Apple silicon with Fusion.</p>
  427.  
  428.  
  429.  
  430. <p>Check out our official certification document&nbsp;<a href="https://armkeil.blob.core.windows.net/developer/Files/pdf/certificate-list/arm-systemready-ve-vmware.pdf">here</a></p>
  431.  
  432.  
  433.  
  434. <p>Our system ready certification is a meaningful step in providing a high-performance, universal, stable platform for developers to ensure compatibility across the wide range of emerging Arm-based devices. Combining this with today&#8217;s announcement from Microsoft, who is also an Arm System Ready certification partner, the foundation for improved support and more innovation for Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon is here and we couldn&#8217;t be more excited about it.</p>
  435.  
  436.  
  437.  
  438. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="WoABlogAnnoucement-WhatdoesthismeanforVMwarecustomers?">What does this mean for VMware customers?</h2>
  439.  
  440.  
  441.  
  442. <p>With Fusion 13 and beyond customers can rest easy knowing that they can deploy Arm-based Windows and Linux virtual machines on Mac computers with Apple silicon, at any scale, with the full weight of VMware&#8217;s support behind it.<br>From individual users to gargantuan enterprise desktop rollouts, we&#8217;re standing behind our commitment to delivering the worlds leading Windows, Linux and BSD on Mac experience to  desktop and notebook Macs with Apple silicon for now and into the foreseeable future. </p>
  443.  
  444.  
  445.  
  446. <p>We&#8217;re thrilled that Microsoft has finally lifted the veil of uncertainty around Windows on Arm, but more importantly we&#8217;re immensely grateful for the community of VMware Fusion users who have been with us along this journey. None of what we&#8217;ve done thus far would have been possible without your understanding and support! </p>
  447.  
  448.  
  449.  
  450. <p>Stay tuned for more announcements as the year continues!</p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/02/microsoft-now-officially-supports-windows-on-mac-computers-with-apple-silicon.html">Microsoft Now Officially Supports&nbsp;Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  451. ]]></content:encoded>
  455. </item>
  456. <item>
  457. <title>Fusion 13 Pro and Player Are Here!</title>
  458. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/11/fusion-13-pro-and-player-are-here.html</link>
  460. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  461. <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
  462. <category><![CDATA[Apple silicon]]></category>
  463. <category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category>
  464. <category><![CDATA[Release]]></category>
  465. <category><![CDATA[Sale]]></category>
  466. <category><![CDATA[updates]]></category>
  467. <category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>
  468. <category><![CDATA[apple silicon]]></category>
  469. <category><![CDATA[ga]]></category>
  470. <category><![CDATA[release]]></category>
  471. <category><![CDATA[v13]]></category>
  472. <category><![CDATA[Windows 11]]></category>
  473. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=2993</guid>
  474.  
  475. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="169" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-300x169.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-300x169.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-1024x576.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-768x432.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-1536x864.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-752x423.png 752w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-576x324.png 576w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-600x337.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light.png 1921w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  476. <p>VMware Fusion 13: Now available for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs The time is now! After a long wait, we&#8217;re proud to announce the general availability of the VMware Fusion 13 product line: Fusion 13 Pro and Fusion 13 Player, for both Intel as well as the latest Apple Silicon Macs. After years of ongoing &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/11/fusion-13-pro-and-player-are-here.html">Continued</a></p>
  477. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/11/fusion-13-pro-and-player-are-here.html">Fusion 13 Pro and Player Are Here!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  478. ]]></description>
  479. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="169" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-300x169.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-300x169.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-1024x576.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-768x432.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-1536x864.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-752x423.png 752w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-576x324.png 576w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light-600x337.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/Fusion-Pro-1920x1080-banner-light.png 1921w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-vmware-fusion-13-now-available-for-intel-and-apple-silicon-macs">VMware Fusion 13: Now available for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs</h2>
  480.  
  481.  
  482.  
  483. <p>The time is now! After a long wait, we&#8217;re proud to announce the general availability of the VMware Fusion 13 product line: Fusion 13 Pro and Fusion 13 Player, for both Intel as well as the latest Apple Silicon Macs.</p>
  484.  
  485.  
  486. <div class="wp-block-image">
  487. <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="492" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2-1024x492.png" alt="Fusion 13 running Windows 11 and 6 other Linux virtual machines on an Mac Studio" class="wp-image-2995" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2-1024x492.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2-300x144.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2-768x369.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2-1536x737.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2-2048x983.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusoin-hero-blog2-600x288.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure></div>
  488.  
  489.  
  490. <div style="height:25px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div>
  491.  
  492.  
  493. <div class="wp-block-image">
  494. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-1024x6.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3028" width="768" height="5" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-1024x6.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-300x2.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-768x5.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-1536x10.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-2048x13.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-600x4.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></a></figure></div>
  495.  
  496.  
  497. <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div>
  498.  
  499.  
  500.  
  501. <div class="wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-1">
  502. <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background" href="https://vmware.com/go/tryfusion" style="background:linear-gradient(45deg,rgb(29,66,138) 0%,rgb(0,145,218) 100%)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Download The Trial Now!</a></div>
  503.  
  504.  
  505.  
  506. <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background" href="https://store-us.vmware.com/fusion_buy_dual" style="background:linear-gradient(45deg,rgb(120,190,32) 0%,rgb(0,161,179) 100%)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Buy Now from the Online Store!</a></div>
  507. </div>
  508.  
  509.  
  510.  
  511. <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div>
  512.  
  513.  
  514. <div class="wp-block-image">
  515. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-1024x6.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3028" width="768" height="5" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-1024x6.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-300x2.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-768x5.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-1536x10.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-2048x13.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/line-600x4.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></a></figure></div>
  516.  
  517.  
  518. <div style="height:60px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div>
  519.  
  520.  
  521.  
  522. <p>After years of ongoing development and several Tech Previews, we&#8217;re ready to bring Windows 11 and more to both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs with the latest major version of VMware Fusion. Let&#8217;s take a quick look at what&#8217;s new in Fusion 13</p>
  523.  
  524.  
  525.  
  526. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Windows 11 on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs</h2>
  527.  
  528.  
  529.  
  530. <p>On both Intel and Apple Silicon, Fusion 13 brings support for Windows 11 virtual machines. In order to achieve support for Windows 11 System Requirements while still providing performant virtual machines, we had to innovate. We&#8217;ve delivered a new Virtual Trusted Platform Module (2.0) device that is recognized as a valid TPM, and new encryption method to support that TPM. </p>
  531.  
  532.  
  533.  
  534. <p>On Intel Macs you&#8217;ll notice full support for Windows 11 with VMware Tools allowing for host-guest interactions like Drag &amp; Drop, or Copy &amp; Paste, as well as shared folders and USB and Camera device passthrough.</p>
  535.  
  536.  
  537.  
  538. <p>On Apple Silicon, we&#8217;ve introduced our first round of features for Windows 11 on Arm. In this release VMware Tools provides virtual graphics and networking, and more is still to come. With certified and signed drivers Windows 11 looks fantastic, and adjust the resolution to 4K and beyond!  <br>Note that Fusion on Apple Silicon must run the Arm variant of Windows 11, and it does not support the x86/Intel version of Windows. </p>
  539.  
  540.  
  541.  
  542. <p>However, for users who want to run more traditional win32 and x64 apps, Windows 11 on Arm has <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x86-emulation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">built-in  emulation</a> to run those applications compiled for Intel/AMD, and as a user-level process our testing has shown us that this works &#8216;out of the box&#8217;.</p>
  543.  
  544.  
  545. <div class="wp-block-image">
  546. <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="699" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated-1024x699.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3000" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated-1024x699.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated-300x205.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated-768x524.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated-1536x1048.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated-2048x1398.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/winrar-emulated-600x409.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption>Windows 11 on Arm running my favorite x64 app in emulation mode: WinRar!</figcaption></figure></div>
  547.  
  548.  
  549. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Universal DMG</h2>
  550.  
  551.  
  552.  
  553. <p>Fusion 13 ships with a single binary, one DMG, that installs on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, making mass deployment simple, and removing any confusion about which is the right version to run on any Mac.</p>
  554.  
  555.  
  556. <div class="wp-block-image">
  557. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg-1024x788.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3004" width="512" height="394" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg-1024x788.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg-300x231.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg-768x591.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg-1536x1182.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg-600x462.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/fusion-dmg.png 1640w" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" /></a></figure></div>
  558.  
  559.  
  560. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">vTPM 2.0 + Fast Encryption</h2>
  561.  
  562.  
  563.  
  564. <p>Fusion 13 introduces a TPM 2.0 virtual device. While designed with Windows 11 in mind, the device can be added to any VM for use. It stores contents in an encrypted section of the virtual machine files, securing the &#8216;secure enclave&#8217; and providing hardware-tpm functionality parity.</p>
  565.  
  566.  
  567.  
  568. <p>To support the new vTPM 2.0 device while remaining performant, Fusion has introduced a new &#8216;fast&#8217; encryption type. Using the same strength as Full encryption, Fast encryption only encrypts the parts of the VM necessary to support the TPM device, making it performant while maintaining security. The encryption password is also stored in the Mac&#8217;s Keychain so that you don&#8217;t need to type it in every time you boot the VM. The VM can also auto-generate a password, or you can specify your own instead.</p>
  569.  
  570.  
  571.  
  572. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">3D Accelerated Graphics + OpenGL 4.3</h2>
  573.  
  574.  
  575.  
  576. <p>For Graphics, Fusion 13 sports OpenGL 4.3 in Windows and Linux VMs on Intel, and in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon. </p>
  577.  
  578.  
  579.  
  580. <p>On Intel, Windows continues to enjoy DirectX 11 graphics, and Fusion continues to support eGPU devices for incredible performance using some of the fastest GPU&#8217;s available.</p>
  581.  
  582.  
  583.  
  584. <p>On Apple Silicon, Fusion can deliver OpenGL 4.3 with blazing fast 3D hardware acceleration to arm-based Linux virtual machines with Linux kernel 5.19 or greater. </p>
  585.  
  586.  
  587. <div class="wp-block-image">
  588. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64-1024x620.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3013" width="768" height="465" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64-1024x620.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64-300x182.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64-768x465.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64-1536x930.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64-2048x1240.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/11/neverball-4K-arm64-600x363.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></a><figcaption>Neverball at 4K on Apple Silicon with Ubuntu 22.10, accelerated by Metal! <br>I am absolutely terrible at this game!</figcaption></figure></div>
  589.  
  590.  
  591. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What about Free Personal Use Licenses?</h2>
  592.  
  593.  
  594.  
  595. <p>Good news! We&#8217;re continuing to offer free &#8220;personal use&#8221; licenses for Fusion Player, and have updated our license delivery tool to provide v13 keys. If you have a v12 key, you can register for a new v13 key here: <a href="https://vmware.com/go/get-fusionplayer-key" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">vmware.com/go/get-fusionplayer-key</a></p>
  596.  
  597.  
  598.  
  599. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">How To Get Started?</h2>
  600.  
  601.  
  602.  
  603. <p>Download the Trial by visiting: <a href="https://vmware.com/go/tryfusion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">vmware.com/go/tryfusion</a> <br>Ready to buy? Head over to the <a href="https://store.vmware.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Online Store</a> where we&#8217;re running a<strong> <em>30% off new licenses</em></strong> launch sale! </p>
  604.  
  605.  
  606.  
  607. <p></p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/11/fusion-13-pro-and-player-are-here.html">Fusion 13 Pro and Player Are Here!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  608. ]]></content:encoded>
  612. </item>
  613. <item>
  614. <title>Just Released: VMware Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview</title>
  615. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/07/just-released-vmware-fusion-22h2-tech-preview.html</link>
  617. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  618. <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
  619. <category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
  620. <category><![CDATA[Apple silicon]]></category>
  621. <category><![CDATA[beta]]></category>
  622. <category><![CDATA[Tech Preview]]></category>
  623. <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
  624. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=2974</guid>
  625.  
  626. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="225" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-300x225.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-600x450.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  627. <p>We know it&#8217;s been a&#160;long&#160;time coming, so we&#8217;re happy to be able to finally share a little of what we&#8217;ve been working on for the Mac platform. In this free, public release, we&#8217;re looking for feedback from users as we iron out kinks and add new capabilities to Fusion, on both Intel as well as &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/07/just-released-vmware-fusion-22h2-tech-preview.html">Continued</a></p>
  628. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/07/just-released-vmware-fusion-22h2-tech-preview.html">Just Released: VMware Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  629. ]]></description>
  630. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="225" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-300x225.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-600x450.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="768" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-1024x768.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2975" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fusion-22H2-Mac-Studio-600x450.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure>
  631.  
  632.  
  633.  
  634. <p>We know it&#8217;s been a&nbsp;long&nbsp;time coming, so we&#8217;re happy to be able to finally share a little of what we&#8217;ve been working on for the Mac platform.</p>
  635.  
  636.  
  637.  
  638. <p>In this free, public release, we&#8217;re looking for feedback from users as we iron out kinks and add new capabilities to Fusion, on both Intel as well as Apple Silicon, in preparation for more formal support later this year.</p>
  639.  
  640.  
  641.  
  642. <p>Without further ado, let&#8217;s look at what&#8217;s in this release:</p>
  643.  
  644.  
  645.  
  646. <p>For those ready to get started, here&#8217;s the download link and the <strong>tl;dr</strong></p>
  647.  
  648.  
  649.  
  650. <ul>
  651. <li> Windows 11 on Intel and Apple Silicon with 2D GFX and Networking</li>
  652.  
  653.  
  654.  
  655. <li> VMtools installation for Windows 11 GOS on M1</li>
  656.  
  657.  
  658.  
  659. <li> Improved Linux support on M1 </li>
  660.  
  661.  
  662.  
  663. <li> 3D Graphics HW Acceleration and OpenGL 4.3 in Linux VMs* (Requires Linux 5.19+ &amp; Mesa 22.1.3+)</li>
  664.  
  665.  
  666.  
  667. <li> Virtual TPM Device</li>
  668.  
  669.  
  670.  
  671. <li> Fast Encryption</li>
  672.  
  673.  
  674.  
  675. <li> Universal Binary </li>
  676. </ul>
  677.  
  678.  
  679.  
  680. <p class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=FUS-PUBTP-22H2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DOWNLOAD NOW!</a></p>
  681.  
  682.  
  683.  
  684. <p class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-Tech-Preview-22H2/ct-p/3022">Visit the Tech Preview Community!</a></p>
  685.  
  686.  
  687.  
  688. <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/>
  689.  
  690.  
  691.  
  692. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-technology-preview-windows-11-guests-on-intel-and-apple-silicon">Technology Preview &#8211; Windows 11 Guests on Intel and Apple Silicon</h2>
  693.  
  694.  
  695.  
  696. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="620" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works-1024x620.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2979" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works-1024x620.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works-300x182.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works-768x465.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works-1536x930.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works-2048x1240.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/Win11-the_works-600x363.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure>
  697.  
  698.  
  699.  
  700. <p>It&#8217;s <b><em>here</em></b>. While it is a little early, and things on Apple silicon don&#8217;t always behave like we&#8217;re used to on Intel, we&#8217;re thrilled to be able to share the work we&#8217;ve been doing to prepare support for Windows 11 virtual machines on Fusion, for both Intel and Apple silicon Macs. Many new enhancements and capabilities came together to bring Windows 11 to the Mac desktop with Fusion, and while they were designed with Windows 11 in mind, the tools can be used for other VMs as well.</p>
  701.  
  702.  
  703.  
  704. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-virtual-trusted-platform-module">Virtual Trusted Platform Module</h3>
  705.  
  706.  
  707.  
  708. <p>In order to support Windows 11 requirements, a Trusted Platform Module is required. With this release, we have enhanced our Virtual TPM module by incorporating &#8216;Fast Encryption&#8217;, key auto-gen and key storage via Keychain with a TPM 2.0 virtual device profile that is compatible with Windows 11 system requirements. Of course, vTPM device can be added to any VM, but that VM must have either Full or Fast VM encryption enabled.</p>
  709.  
  710.  
  711.  
  712. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-fast-encryption">Fast Encryption&nbsp;</h3>
  713.  
  714.  
  715.  
  716. <p>With the new &#8216;fast encryption&#8217; mode, only the most critical parts of the virtual machine&#8217;s local storage space are encrypted, dramatically improving overall VM performance but providing a secure enclave for sensitive data such as a TPM device. Fast Encryption&nbsp;can be enabled for all VM types from the VM Settings. &gt; Encryption window, or during the New VM  walkthrough.</p>
  717.  
  718.  
  719.  
  720. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption-1024x491.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2980" width="541" height="259" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption-1024x491.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption-300x144.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption-768x369.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption-1536x737.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption-600x288.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/fast-encryption.png 1592w" sizes="(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px" /></a></figure>
  721.  
  722.  
  723.  
  724. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-encryption-key-auto-generate-and-store">Encryption Key Auto-Generate and Store</h3>
  725.  
  726.  
  727.  
  728. <p>To enhance the new fast encryption model, Fusion can auto-generate a password for the user, and the local keychain is used by default to store the encryption key, relieving the user from having to type it in whenever their VM boots.</p>
  729.  
  730.  
  731.  
  732. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/full-or-fast.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/full-or-fast-1024x878.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2978" width="519" height="445" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/full-or-fast-1024x878.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/full-or-fast-300x257.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/full-or-fast-768x659.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/full-or-fast-600x515.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2022/07/full-or-fast.png 1504w" sizes="(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Well there&#8217;s my password&#8230; it&#8217;s the same one I use on my luggage.</em></figcaption></figure>
  733.  
  734.  
  735.  
  736. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-2d-graphics-drivers-for-windows-on-arm">2D Graphics Drivers for Windows on ARM</h3>
  737.  
  738.  
  739.  
  740. <p>To deliver Windows 11 looking as good as it can, we are shipping an early version of our graphics drivers. This WDDM driver allows users to adjust the display setting within Windows to deliver 4K and higher resolutions.&nbsp;</p>
  741.  
  742.  
  743.  
  744. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-vmxnet3-networking-drivers-for-windows-on-arm">vmxnet3 Networking Drivers for Windows on ARM</h3>
  745.  
  746.  
  747.  
  748. <p>While Windows does not yet ship with our vmxnet3 networking driver for Windows on ARM as it now does for Intel, the VMware Tools ISO on ARM contains the 2 currently supported drivers for graphics and networking. &nbsp;</p>
  749.  
  750.  
  751.  
  752. <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/>
  753.  
  754.  
  755.  
  756. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-improved-linux-vm-support-on-apple-silicon">Improved Linux VM Support on Apple Silicon</h2>
  757.  
  758.  
  759.  
  760. <p>Working with the communities of various operating systems and open source open-source projects such as Mesa, Linux, as well as our own open-vm-tools, we&#8217;ve made many enhancements to the Linux on Apple silicon experience. Patches have been upstreamed to address a variety of kernel-related issues, as well as enhancements to the <a href="https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/svga3d.html">Mesa SVGA</a> graphics driver to bring 3D hardware acceleration and OpenGL 4.3 + GLES 3.1 support to Linux VMs with Mesa 22.1.1 and later. (note: 3D and OpenGL 4.3 requires 5.19 kernel and <a href="https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/22.1.1.html">Mesa 22.1.1</a> or greater). </p>
  761.  
  762.  
  763.  
  764. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-graphics-enhancements">Graphics enhancements</h2>
  765.  
  766.  
  767.  
  768. <p>Out of the box now for many bleeding-edge or rolling-release Linux distributions, changes to the open source <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220302152426.885214-1-zack@kde.org/">vmwgfx device drivers</a> which made their way into Linux 5.14 and later provide a smooth &#8216;vm-driving&#8217; experience while allowing users to change the resolution within the guest.</p>
  769.  
  770.  
  771.  
  772. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-auto-fit-guest-display">Auto-Fit Guest Display</h3>
  773.  
  774.  
  775.  
  776. <p>Open-VM-Tools v12.0.5 in concert with this release now provides the auto-fit guest resolution feature. Users can drag the corner of the VM display window and the guest will automatically adjust the resolution in distributions like Debian Bookworm/Testing or Sid, and Fedora 37/Rawhide. Likewise, the resolution can be set from the View &gt; Resize Virtual Machine menu. </p>
  777.  
  778.  
  779.  
  780. <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/>
  781.  
  782.  
  783.  
  784. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-other-cool-stuff">Other Cool Stuff!</h2>
  785.  
  786.  
  787.  
  788. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-universal-binary-for-intel-and-apple-silicon">Universal Binary for Intel and Apple Silicon</h3>
  789.  
  790.  
  791.  
  792. <p>With the 22H2 update to the Tech Preview, we&#8217;re delivering a single .dmg to install Fusion on both Apple Silicon as well as Intel Macs. Organizations that deploy Fusion en-masse can use the same asset for the existing as well as the new Macs that are brought under management, and likewise users downloading from vmware.com don&#8217;t need to worry about finding the version with the right architecture for their Mac.&nbsp;</p>
  793.  
  794.  
  795.  
  796. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-boot-bugs">Boot bugs</h3>
  797.  
  798.  
  799.  
  800. <p>There were several bugs that blocked successful booting of 5.15+ kernels. Working with the community we addressed issues in the Linux kernel, as well as in our own code to accommodate for the nuances of working with multiple architectures using a single code base. Distributions that have picked up those public changes, such Debian, Fedora and Kali, successfully boot and provide a delightful experience when combined with our latest graphics drivers, Mesa library patches and open-vm-tools.</p>
  801.  
  802.  
  803.  
  804. <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/>
  805.  
  806.  
  807.  
  808. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-some-notes">Some Notes</h2>
  809.  
  810.  
  811.  
  812. <p>While we&#8217;re thrilled with how much Fusion has improved, it is still a work in progress, particularly on Apple silicon Macs. As such there are some known limitations that users frequently ask about, such as:</p>
  813.  
  814.  
  815.  
  816. <ul>
  817. <li>Fusion will not support running VMs across different architectures. (I.e. no x86_64 VMs on M1 Macs).&nbsp;</li>
  818.  
  819.  
  820.  
  821. <li>macOS virtual machines are out of scope for this release, but it&#8217;s something we&#8217;re looking into.</li>
  822.  
  823.  
  824.  
  825. <li>Ubuntu 20.04.4 and 22.04 for arm64 are not currently booting (Ubuntu 20.04.4 builds from July 5 and onward) We are working to resolve this.</li>
  826. </ul>
  827.  
  828.  
  829.  
  830. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-wrapping-up">Wrapping up</h2>
  831.  
  832.  
  833.  
  834. <p>A great deal of care has gone into this release, and the team sincerely appreciates the involvement and support of the community as we march towards finally supporting Windows 11 and Linux on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs!&nbsp;</p>
  835.  
  836.  
  837.  
  838. <p>We hope you enjoy the experience, and share with us how we can improve!So go on! The only thing left is to grab the build, try it out, and let us know how it fits your workflow!</p>
  839.  
  840.  
  841.  
  842. <p class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=FUS-PUBTP-22H2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DOWNLOAD NOW!</a></p>
  843.  
  844.  
  845.  
  846. <p class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-Tech-Preview-22H2/ct-p/3022">Join the discussion in our Tech Preview VMTN Community!</a></p>
  847.  
  848.  
  849.  
  850. <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/07/just-released-vmware-fusion-22h2-tech-preview.html">Just Released: VMware Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  851. ]]></content:encoded>
  855. </item>
  856. <item>
  857. <title>Fusion 12.2 Now Available</title>
  858. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/10/fusion-12-2-now-available.html</link>
  860. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  861. <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
  862. <category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category>
  863. <category><![CDATA[updates]]></category>
  864. <category><![CDATA[virtualization]]></category>
  865. <category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>
  866. <category><![CDATA[Workstation]]></category>
  867. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=2962</guid>
  868.  
  869. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="171" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-300x171.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-300x171.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-1024x585.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-768x439.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-1536x878.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-2048x1170.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-600x343.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  870. <p>The Desktop Hypervisor team at VMware is happy to announce the release of the latest update to Fusion 12, with changes to support macOS Monterey hosts, fixes for some persistent bugs, as well as improvements to the security and management of Fusion at scale. To update, just select &#8216;Check for Updates&#8217; in the VMware Fusion &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/10/fusion-12-2-now-available.html">Continued</a></p>
  871. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/10/fusion-12-2-now-available.html">Fusion 12.2 Now Available</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  872. ]]></description>
  873. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="171" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-300x171.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-300x171.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-1024x585.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-768x439.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-1536x878.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-2048x1170.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-600x343.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="585" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-1024x585.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2967" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-1024x585.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-300x171.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-768x439.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-1536x878.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-2048x1170.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/10/Fusion-12_2-hero-lg-600x343.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure>
  874.  
  875.  
  876.  
  877. <p>The Desktop Hypervisor team at VMware is happy to announce
  878. the release of the latest update to Fusion 12, with changes to support macOS
  879. Monterey hosts, fixes for some persistent bugs, as well as improvements to the
  880. security and management of Fusion at scale.</p>
  881.  
  882.  
  883.  
  884. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>To update, just select &#8216;Check for Updates&#8217; in the VMware Fusion menu in the Menu Bar. You can also download it from your MyVMware account, or by accessing this direct link: <a href="https://vmware.com/go/getfusion">https://vmware.com/go/getfusion</a></p></blockquote>
  885.  
  886.  
  887.  
  888. <p>This update is provided to users on macOS 11 Big Sur and
  889. later, and extends the “general support” period of Fusion 12 Pro and Fusion 12
  890. Player to December 2022, meaning we will continue to provide updates which
  891. include features, bugfixes and security enhancements.</p>
  892.  
  893.  
  894.  
  895. <p>We’ve been testing and have made some early minor enhancements to prepare for a more official Windows 11 support rollout in the near future. While we are not delivering a “proper” Windows 11 Guest OS type in this release, we have added to the Windows 10 Guest OS type (Now “Windows 10 and Later”) which provide a smooth transition to Windows 11 for existing users as well as supporting new installations from ISO.</p>
  896.  
  897.  
  898.  
  899. <p>Users can expect that on Intel Macs Windows 11 will work with VMware Tools 11.3.5 support, and currently passes the compatibility checks when appropriate configuration is applied to meet the minimum W11 requirements. </p>
  900.  
  901.  
  902.  
  903. <p>We’re also shipping a currently-experimental vTPM device that boasts a reduced performance impact by employing a new encryption model, as well as several new options for managing Fusion and Workstation installations at scale.  <br><br>To use this experimental device, just add the following to your Windows 11 (or whatever) .vmx config file and restart Fusion:<br><br><code>managedVM.autoAddVTPM="software"</code><br><br>This replaces the need to do full-VM encryption, which we expect users to notice a happy performance increase for use cases that require a VTPM</p>
  904.  
  905.  
  906.  
  907. <p>For Fusion on Apple silicon, we continue to support our Public Tech Preview which lets users run Linux and BSD aarch64 operating systems with incredible performance, and we’ll continue do so into the new year. More and more distributions now shipping Open VM Tools and Linux 5.14 kernel to deliver a happy user experience right out of the box. </p>
  908.  
  909.  
  910.  
  911. <p>Release Notes: <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/12.2.0/rn/VMware-Fusion-1220-Release-Notes.html">https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/12.2.0/rn/VMware-Fusion-1220-Release-Notes.html</a></p>
  912.  
  913.  
  914.  
  915. <p>To update, just select &#8216;Check for Updates&#8217; in the VMware Fusion menu in the Menu Bar.</p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/10/fusion-12-2-now-available.html">Fusion 12.2 Now Available</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  916. ]]></content:encoded>
  920. </item>
  921. <item>
  922. <title>Announcement: VMware Fusion for Apple silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available</title>
  923. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-public-tech-preview-now-available.html</link>
  925. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  926. <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
  927. <category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
  928. <category><![CDATA[Apple silicon]]></category>
  929. <category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category>
  930. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=2939</guid>
  931.  
  932. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="165" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-300x165.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-300x165.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-1024x563.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-768x422.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-1536x845.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-2048x1126.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-600x330.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  933. <p>It is with great pride and pleasure that we announce the public availability of VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview! With more than a year in development, and a few weeks of a successful Private Tech Preview, it’s finally time for us to show the world what we’ve been working on. Download Fusion &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-public-tech-preview-now-available.html">Continued</a></p>
  934. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-public-tech-preview-now-available.html">Announcement: VMware Fusion for Apple silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  935. ]]></description>
  936. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="165" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-300x165.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-300x165.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-1024x563.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-768x422.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-1536x845.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-2048x1126.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-600x330.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusion-tp-big-dh-email-header-1024x249.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2949" width="768" height="187" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusion-tp-big-dh-email-header-1024x249.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusion-tp-big-dh-email-header-300x73.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusion-tp-big-dh-email-header-768x187.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusion-tp-big-dh-email-header-600x146.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusion-tp-big-dh-email-header.png 1232w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></figure></div>
  937.  
  938.  
  939.  
  940. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-1024x563.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2946" width="768" height="422" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-1024x563.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-300x165.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-768x422.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-1536x845.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-2048x1126.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/09/fusionAS-side-hero-big-2-600x330.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></figure>
  941.  
  942.  
  943.  
  944. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">It is with great pride and pleasure that we announce the public availability of VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview!</h3>
  945.  
  946.  
  947.  
  948. <p>With more than a year in development, and a few weeks of a successful Private Tech Preview, it’s finally time for us to show the world what we’ve been working on.</p>
  949.  
  950.  
  951.  
  952. <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong><a href="https://vmware.com/go/get-fusion-m1">Download Fusion for Apple Silicon Now</a></strong><a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-for-Apple-Silicon-Tech/ct-p/3022"><strong> </strong></a></p>
  953.  
  954.  
  955.  
  956. <p>To deliver Fusion for Apple Silicon devices we’ve had to re-evaluate every part of the Fusion technology stack. The scope and scale of this undertaking should not be understated, and the success of this project has been the result of a massive ongoing collaboration from many internal teams working together, entirely remotely as we do in this day in age. </p>
  957.  
  958.  
  959.  
  960. <p>We’re going to be keeping the Public Tech Preview active for at least the rest of this year and likely into spring, and so we won’t be pulling in these changes into our fall release, which means Fusion on Apple silicon is effectively <em>FREE</em> for all users for the time being.</p>
  961.  
  962.  
  963.  
  964. <p class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-for-Apple-Silicon-Tech/ct-p/3022"><strong>Join the Tech Preview Community</strong></a></p>
  965.  
  966.  
  967.  
  968. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Fusion and Workstation Fall Release Update</h3>
  969.  
  970.  
  971.  
  972. <p>We also wanted to take the opportunity, since we&#8217;re so close to VMworld which has a bit of a different schedule this year, is to let folks know that we won&#8217;t be releasing a &#8220;paid upgrade&#8221; for either Fusion <em>or </em>Workstation this year as we often have.  Instead we will continue to invest in the current shipping versions, and will extend their support periods until December 2022, with new updates starting in October.</p>
  973.  
  974.  
  975.  
  976. <p>Thanks!</p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-public-tech-preview-now-available.html">Announcement: VMware Fusion for Apple silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  977. ]]></content:encoded>
  981. </item>
  982. <item>
  983. <title>Fusion on Apple Silicon: Progress Update</title>
  984. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-silicon-progress-update.html</link>
  986. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  987. <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 20:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
  988. <category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
  989. <category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category>
  990. <category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
  991. <category><![CDATA[virtualization]]></category>
  992. <category><![CDATA[M1]]></category>
  993. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=2824</guid>
  994.  
  995. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="171" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-300x171.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-300x171.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-1024x585.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-768x439.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-1536x878.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-2048x1170.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-600x343.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-624x357.png 624w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  996. <p>It’s been a few months since our informal announcement via Twitter back in November where we committed to delivering VMware VMs on Apple silicon devices, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share a bit about how our progress with our little project to bring Fusion to life on Apple silicon Macs this year. &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-silicon-progress-update.html">Continued</a></p>
  997. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-silicon-progress-update.html">Fusion on Apple Silicon: Progress Update</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  998. ]]></description>
  999. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="171" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-300x171.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-300x171.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-1024x585.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-768x439.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-1536x878.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-2048x1170.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-600x343.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-624x357.png 624w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="585" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-1024x585.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2828" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-1024x585.png 1024w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-300x171.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-768x439.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-1536x878.png 1536w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-2048x1170.png 2048w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-600x343.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/m1-fusion-mac-hero-2-624x357.png 624w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure></div>
  1000.  
  1001.  
  1002.  
  1003. <p>It’s been a few months since our <a href="https://twitter.com/VMwareFusion/status/1326229094648832000">informal announcement</a> via Twitter back in November where we committed to delivering VMware VMs on Apple silicon devices, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share a bit about how our progress with our little project to bring Fusion to life on Apple silicon Macs this year.</p>
  1004.  
  1005.  
  1006.  
  1007. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The quick read</h2>
  1008.  
  1009.  
  1010.  
  1011. <p>Before we get right into it, I just want to summarize our position way up front with a quick tl;dr:</p>
  1012.  
  1013.  
  1014.  
  1015. <ul><li>We will be delivering a Tech Preview of VMware Fusion for macOS on Apple silicon this year.</li><li>Development is moving along very well, meeting or exceeding our expectations, but there are challenges and much work still to do </li><li>We don&#8217;t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon.</li><li>Windows is second priority behind Linux<ul><li>Microsoft currently does not sell licenses of Windows 10 ARM for virtual machines. </li><li>Insider builds of Windows 10 ARM may only be installed on systems with a licensed version of Windows 10, which is currently not available on Apple hardware.</li></ul></li><li>macOS VMs are not in scope in the short term. There are challenges there which will require Apple to work with us to resolve.</li></ul>
  1016.  
  1017.  
  1018.  
  1019. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">A new generation of Macs</h2>
  1020.  
  1021.  
  1022.  
  1023. <p>With the introduction of Apple silicon, it was revealed that the new CPU line would be based on the same <a href="https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu">Arm CPU</a> architecture found in an iPhone or on an iPad as opposed to the x86 or x86_64 Intel (or AMD) architectures found on desktops and notebooks. With the new architecture comes incredible performance gains, thermal improvements, and dramatically improved battery life, but poses some unique challenges for virtualization apps like Fusion Pro and Player.</p>
  1024.  
  1025.  
  1026.  
  1027. <p>With first generation of Apple silicon chips, namely the M1, Apple has made significant performance and efficacy improvements, with claims of “Up to 2.8x CPU performance; Up to 5x the graphics speed; Up to 11x faster machine learning; And up to 20 hours of battery life” on a new 13” MacBook Pro.</p>
  1028.  
  1029.  
  1030.  
  1031. <p>Seeing improvements like that, it comes as no surprise to us that when users got their hands on M1 devices they&nbsp;<em>naturally&nbsp;</em>wanted to run virtual machines on them! Why not take advantage of that extra CPU power and carry around a single notebook instead of 2 laptops, right? We agree.</p>
  1032.  
  1033.  
  1034.  
  1035. <p>In much the same way they did when moving from PowerPC to Intel CPUs back in 2006, Apple introduced a new version of Rosetta to support running Intel apps on Apple silicon. For the most part, apps ‘<em>just work’,&nbsp;</em>even if they’re a bit slower.</p>
  1036.  
  1037.  
  1038.  
  1039. <p>However, for those that need to run another operating system like Linux or Windows, Rosetta 2&nbsp;<em>doesn’t</em> support Virtualization, and Apple silicon Macs&nbsp;<a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/20/craig-federighi-on-windows-for-m1-macs/">don’t support Boot Camp</a>. That means it’s time for us to innovate and rebuild our beloved desktop hypervisor for Macs, VMware Fusion, to support the next generation of Apple hardware.</p>
  1040.  
  1041.  
  1042.  
  1043. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Fusion&#8217;s roots</h2>
  1044.  
  1045.  
  1046.  
  1047. <figure class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex"><ul class="blocks-gallery-grid"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="770" height="1024" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box-770x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="2838" data-full-url="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box.jpg" data-link="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?attachment_id=2838" class="wp-image-2838" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box-770x1024.jpg 770w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box-226x300.jpg 226w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box-768x1021.jpg 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box-600x798.jpg 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box-624x830.jpg 624w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-closed-box.jpg 1155w" sizes="(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px" /></a><figcaption class="blocks-gallery-item__caption">The original VMware Fusion retail box, back when you could buy them in Apple retail stores!</figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-box-1024x768.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-box-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="2829" class="wp-image-2829"/></a><figcaption class="blocks-gallery-item__caption">Production Quality fold out</figcaption></figure></li></ul></figure>
  1048.  
  1049.  
  1050.  
  1051. <p>With the 2006 transition, a tiny <em>(but incredible!)</em> team of engineers at VMware saw an opportunity. As a side project, this small group were able to essentially rebuild&nbsp;<a href="https://vmware.com/products/workstation">Workstation</a>&nbsp;to run on the Mac using Apple’s UI, thus creating the foundation of what we now know as VMware Fusion</p>
  1052.  
  1053.  
  1054.  
  1055. <p>One of the benefits our users appreciate of having older &#8220;enterprise-grade&#8221; siblings with Workstation on the desktop and ESXi in the data center is that it gives organizations a consistent operating model. A VMware VM behaves pretty much the same regardless of what product it&#8217;s running on. Developers and Operations teams can move VMs and templates between data centers, desktops, and clouds with ease. This is super important to us and to our customers, particularly as more and more operational workflows become automated.</p>
  1056.  
  1057.  
  1058.  
  1059. <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2825" width="616" height="616" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0.png 821w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0-600x600.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0-360x360.png 360w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/vmware-1.0-624x624.png 624w" sizes="(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px" /></a><figcaption><em>For those who might not have studied the history of VMware, the hypervisor stack in Fusion shares much of the same code as the stack that runs in the majority of the world’s data centers: ESXi, which itself was created from breaking apart the internals of VMware Workstation into it’s functionally discrete components: Storage, Networking and Compute.</em></figcaption></figure></div>
  1060.  
  1061.  
  1062.  
  1063. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Some context</h2>
  1064.  
  1065.  
  1066.  
  1067. <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/esxi-on-arm-fling-1.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="286" height="300" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/esxi-on-arm-fling-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2830"/></a></figure></div>
  1068.  
  1069.  
  1070.  
  1071. <p>Now, we’re no stranger to Arm CPUs, having shipped what is currently a something we call a&nbsp;<a href="https://flings.vmware.com/">Fling</a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<a href="https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition">ESXi Arm Edition</a>. Delivering ESXi for Arm has been a multi-year effort, and yet it’s still not quite a&nbsp;<em>Product&nbsp;</em>like ESXi on x86 currently is.</p>
  1072.  
  1073.  
  1074.  
  1075. <p>So when we learned about the M1 devices, we knew we had the in-house expertise on both the Arm team, and also on the Fusion bench, to set in motion a plan to re-invent our Mac desktop hypervisor to support this incredible new platform. Being able to build on top of what we’ve learned with our still-evolving Fling has been crucial, and thankfully we have some overlap in the teams’ history, meaning folks have exactly the right experience needed for this project.&nbsp;</p>
  1076.  
  1077.  
  1078.  
  1079. <p>To support Fusion on M1 devices, while maintaining code and feature compatibility with our ecosystem, we are essentially bringing the core of these two projects together.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a much different task that simply shipping a single product like Fusion to say the least!</p>
  1080.  
  1081.  
  1082.  
  1083. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">So, how&#8217;s it going?</h2>
  1084.  
  1085.  
  1086.  
  1087. <p>Well, our initial assessments are going very well! For starters, we have VMs booting in a variety of Arm operating systems, and we are very impressed with the performance!&nbsp;</p>
  1088.  
  1089.  
  1090.  
  1091. <p>Because of our kinship with ESXi, we have a major architectural advantage over our competition. ESXi is designed to be enterprise-grade, which includes security, resiliency and performance benefits that both Fusion and Workstation get to benefit from.</p>
  1092.  
  1093.  
  1094.  
  1095. <p>Here’s a couple of screenshots from my test desktop, a M1 MacBook Air with 8 CPU + 8GPU cores and 16GB of RAM:</p>
  1096.  
  1097.  
  1098.  
  1099. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-arm-merged-7vm-dark-scaled.png"><img decoding="async" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-arm-merged-7vm-dark-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2856"/></a><figcaption>You can see 7 VMs booted in the Library window, with Fedora 34 up front and Ubuntu 21.04 in the Preview window. Still runs 20 degrees (Celsius) cooler than my Intel Mac Mini</figcaption></figure>
  1100.  
  1101.  
  1102.  
  1103. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-arm-expose-7vm-dark-scaled.png"><img decoding="async" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-arm-expose-7vm-dark-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2857"/></a><figcaption>Same VMs as above but in separate windows, elegantly viewed with Expose. </figcaption></figure>
  1104.  
  1105.  
  1106.  
  1107. <p>You can see here that I have 7 ARM VMs booted at once… 2 are CLI only (Photon and BSD), the others are full desktops… each is configured with 4CPU and 8GB of RAM. 6 different Linux flavors and 1 FreeBSD… MacBook Air. On battery. No fans. Yep.&nbsp;</p>
  1108.  
  1109.  
  1110.  
  1111. <p>Of course, just booting a bunch of VMs that are mostly idle isn’t quite a ‘real world experience’, nor is it the same as doing some of the stress testing that we perform in the leadup to a release.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even with that said, and note that I’m using ‘debug’ builds which perform&nbsp;slower,&nbsp;<strong><em>in my 12 years at VMware I’ve never seen VMs boot and run like this.&nbsp;</em></strong>So we’re very encouraged by our early results, and seriously can’t wait to get it on every Apple silicon equipped Mac out there.</p>
  1112.  
  1113.  
  1114.  
  1115. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Sounds good, so what&#8217;s the hold up?</h2>
  1116.  
  1117.  
  1118.  
  1119. <p>While booting all that at once and it being usable (<em>which it all has been in my testing</em>) is an impressive feat in itself, we do still have a ways to go, and some challenges along the way.</p>
  1120.  
  1121.  
  1122.  
  1123. <p>For instance, the best Linux VM experience comes by installing <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/340">VMware Tools</a>, and by and large Tools are included with every Linux distribution. Currently, open-vm-tools are not readily available on the aarch64 (Arm) platform. </p>
  1124.  
  1125.  
  1126.  
  1127. <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow">
  1128. <p>Quick refresh, VMware Tools:</p>
  1129.  
  1130.  
  1131.  
  1132. <ul><li>Is included by default with most Linux distributions</li><li>Is part of what enables the features that work between host and guest. </li><li>Improves VM performance</li><li>Provides a consistent management layer.</li><li>Delivers graphics drivers and &#8216;plumbing&#8217; (via open-vm-tools-desktop)</li></ul>
  1133. </div></div>
  1134.  
  1135.  
  1136.  
  1137. <p>The ESXi-Arm project, in addressing this gap, currently has users build open-vm-tools from source itself. That works just fine for some people, but obviously not everyone is comfortable doing that.</p>
  1138.  
  1139.  
  1140.  
  1141. <p>Because open-vm-tools is such a key building block to support the experience we want to deliver for Linux VMs on every platform we support, we&#8217;re working with various Linux upstream projects to include the necessary kernel patches to support open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop on arm64/aarch64 architectures so they can be included in OS distributions. These changes will also benefit the ESXi-Arm Fling by not having to compile Tools from source going forward, so things should ‘just work’ out of the box, as users have come to expect.</p>
  1142.  
  1143.  
  1144.  
  1145. <p>So for now, while VMs are booting, we don’t currently have things like 3D hardware accelerated graphics, and other features that require Tools which Fusion users on Intel Macs have come to expect. </p>
  1146.  
  1147.  
  1148.  
  1149. <p>That said, even without hardware 3D and while using debug-enabled-builds, we are&nbsp;<em>super</em>&nbsp;impressed with how well things are performing, even against the GA release of our competition.</p>
  1150.  
  1151.  
  1152.  
  1153. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What about Windows?</h2>
  1154.  
  1155.  
  1156.  
  1157. <p>Of course, users are expecting to run Windows in a virtual machine, much like we’ve been used to for many years now. With Windows on ARM however, this presents a unique situation, particularly as it relates to Licensing.&nbsp;</p>
  1158.  
  1159.  
  1160.  
  1161. <p>The Insider Preview program says: “To install Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds,&nbsp;<strong>you must be running a licensed version of Windows 10 on your device</strong>.” And as far as we are aware, there is no way to buy a Windows 10 ARM license for a Mac with Apple silicon. There have been&nbsp;<a href="https://superuser.com/questions/1616058/buy-a-windows-oem-license-to-gain-access-to-windows-arm-builds-in-order-to-play">plenty</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_licensing/microsoft-windows-10-arm-licensing-to-end-user/12dfbefd-9772-4388-9566-fbc53f1a48a9">discussions</a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install/in-response-to-closed-thread-regarding-how-to-test/ead69f10-e322-4ac8-99d1-dd11ad6692fe">topic</a>&nbsp;from users and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/20/craig-federighi-on-windows-for-m1-macs/">the</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-mac-arm-windows-support-boot-camp">media</a>, and&nbsp;from the Insider Download Page, it reads:</p>
  1162.  
  1163.  
  1164.  
  1165. <p><em>With Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview builds, you can create&nbsp;<strong>64-bit ARM (ARM64) VMs in Hyper-V on</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Windows 10 ARM-based PCs</strong>. Creating ARM64 VMs is not supported on x64 hardware.</em></p>
  1166.  
  1167.  
  1168.  
  1169. <p><em>ARM64 VMs are&nbsp;<strong>only supported on</strong>&nbsp;<strong>devices</strong>&nbsp;that meet the pre-requisites:</em></p>
  1170.  
  1171.  
  1172.  
  1173. <ul><li><em>Windows 10 ARM-based PCs with a Microsoft SQ1, Microsoft SQ2, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx, or Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 processor</em></li><li><em>Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, build 19559 or newer</em></li><li><em>Hyper-V enabled (instructions)</em></li></ul>
  1174.  
  1175.  
  1176.  
  1177. <p>You can see it doesn’t say anything about Apple silicon.&nbsp;We have reached out to Microsoft for comment and clarification on the matter.&nbsp;</p>
  1178.  
  1179.  
  1180.  
  1181. <p>For the time being, our work has been focused on Linux guest operating systems, and we’re confident that if Microsoft offers Windows on Arm licenses more broadly, we’ll be ready to officially support it.</p>
  1182.  
  1183.  
  1184.  
  1185. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What about x86 emulation?</h2>
  1186.  
  1187.  
  1188.  
  1189. <p>We get asked regularly about running x86 VMs on M1 Macs. It makes total sense… If Apple can&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator">emulate</a>&nbsp;x86 with Rosetta 2, surely VMware can do something too, right?</p>
  1190.  
  1191.  
  1192.  
  1193. <p>Well, the short answer is that there isn&#8217;t exactly much business value relative to the engineering effort that is required, at least for the time being.   For now, we&#8217;re laser focused on making Arm Linux VMs on Apple silicon a delight to use. </p>
  1194.  
  1195.  
  1196.  
  1197. <p>So, to be a bit blunt,&nbsp;<strong>running x86 operating systems on Apple silicon is not something we are planning to deliver with this project</strong>.<em>&nbsp;</em>Installing Windows or Linux from an x86 ISO, for example, will not work.</p>
  1198.  
  1199.  
  1200.  
  1201. <p>Why not? Let&#8217;s explore:</p>
  1202.  
  1203.  
  1204.  
  1205. <ul><li>For Windows for Arm, Microsoft has an evolving x86 emulation layer within the OS itself</li><li>For cloud, OCI multi-arch containers can be built with both Arm and x86 layers in a single image from the same build process.</li><li>For Linux, there are only a handful of apps that haven’t yet been cross-compiled for Arm</li><li>There are already great open source tools whose primary function is x86 emulation (i.e. Qemu)</li></ul>
  1206.  
  1207.  
  1208.  
  1209. <p>More personally speaking, I really don&#8217;t think the next era of Macs will be defined by &#8220;switchers&#8221; in the same way the previous one was.  I expect this platform will be one to more rapidly introduce <em>new</em> experiences at the expense of cutting away from the past. Where we&#8217;re headed is anyone&#8217;s guess, but I am confident the direction we&#8217;re moving <em>isn&#8217;t</em> backwards.</p>
  1210.  
  1211.  
  1212.  
  1213. <p>That being said, we&#8217;re always looking to broaden our horizon with respect to use cases, so if there&#8217;s something we&#8217;re missing, <a href="https://twitter.com/VMwareFusion">give us</a> (or <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeroySoft">me</a>) a shout, we&#8217;re eager to hear about it.</p>
  1214.  
  1215.  
  1216.  
  1217. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">When can we get it?</h2>
  1218.  
  1219.  
  1220.  
  1221. <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-beta-1-scaled.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2021/04/fusion-1-beta-1-991x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2836" width="743" height="768"/></a><figcaption>The beta that started it all&#8230; now 15 years young!</figcaption></figure></div>
  1222.  
  1223.  
  1224.  
  1225. <p>Ah yes, the burning question: When can everyone get their hands on a tech preview?</p>
  1226.  
  1227.  
  1228.  
  1229. <p>We’re working diligently to get VMware VMs on Apple silicon and making great progress as you can see, but we would be remiss if our product did something unexpected or unsafe to any computer it was installed on. Even for a&nbsp;Tech Preview there’s a good deal of QA/QE work still to be done as we continue to add code to bring features online. </p>
  1230.  
  1231.  
  1232.  
  1233. <p>We&#8217;re the leaders of virtualization in the enterprise with <a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/software-defined-datacenter.html">SDDC</a> stacks like <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-foundation.html">VCF</a>  because we consistently deliver a high measure of quality, security and performance across all our products. It&#8217;s not because we shipped first, it&#8217;s because we ship when it&#8217;s ready.</p>
  1234.  
  1235.  
  1236.  
  1237. <p>That said, the team is<strong>&nbsp;planning to deliver a Public Tech Preview of VMware Fusion for macOS on Apple silicon before the end of this year,&nbsp;</strong>and we can’t wait to get it in the hands of every Apple silicon Mac owner.</p>
  1238.  
  1239.  
  1240.  
  1241. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Wrapping Up</h2>
  1242.  
  1243.  
  1244.  
  1245. <p>If you’ve made it this far, the team and I appreciate it! The world is a bit crazy right now, but there are great things coming. Thanks for your understanding and patience as we take the time to get it right amidst all of the challenges of today. </p>
  1246.  
  1247.  
  1248.  
  1249. <p>We really couldn’t be more excited about not only the development progress, but for life with Fusion on Apple silicon. The hardware is incredible, and if our early testing is any indication, users are going to be very happy running VMware virtual machines on the latest Macs of today the future.</p>
  1250.  
  1251.  
  1252.  
  1253. <p>Keep an eye out in the&nbsp;<a href="https://communities.vmware.com/">VMTN</a>&nbsp;community or follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/VMwareFusion">Twitter</a> for our Tech Preview announcement in the coming months!</p>
  1254.  
  1255.  
  1256.  
  1257. <p>And please consider donating to the charities above to support our Indian friends and colleagues affected by the global pandemic. &lt;3</p>
  1258.  
  1259.  
  1260.  
  1261. <p></p>
  1262.  
  1263.  
  1264.  
  1265. <p><strong>May 3</strong><em><strong> </strong>– this blog was updated to reflect that the timeframe to deliver this offering is not currently impacted by the COVID situation. That said, for folks looking to help with the relief efforts in India, please check out the&nbsp;<a href="https://vmware.brightfunds.org/funds/2021-india-covid-19-recovery-fund">2021 India COVID-19 Recovery Fund</a>.</em></p><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-silicon-progress-update.html">Fusion on Apple Silicon: Progress Update</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  1266. ]]></content:encoded>
  1270. </item>
  1271. <item>
  1272. <title>Black Friday Sale is On!</title>
  1273. <link>https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/11/black-friday-sale-2020-is-on.html</link>
  1275. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Roy]]></dc:creator>
  1276. <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 18:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
  1277. <category><![CDATA[BlackFriday]]></category>
  1278. <category><![CDATA[Sale]]></category>
  1279. <category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>
  1280. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=2815</guid>
  1281.  
  1282. <description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="101" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-300x101.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Black Friday banner graphic" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-300x101.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-768x258.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-600x202.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-624x210.png 624w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN.png 779w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div>
  1283. <p>It&#8217;s that time of year again! The biggest sale of the year this time around offers up to 30% discount on your favorite Desktop Hypervisor products: VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Fusion Player! Upgrades have never been cheaper, with 20% discount on top of the already reduced 2020 pricing! Upgrade from Fusion 10 or Fusion &#8230; <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/11/black-friday-sale-2020-is-on.html">Continued</a></p>
  1284. <p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/11/black-friday-sale-2020-is-on.html">Black Friday Sale is On!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  1285. ]]></description>
  1286. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="101" src="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-300x101.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Black Friday banner graphic" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-300x101.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-768x258.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-600x202.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-624x210.png 624w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN.png 779w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><p><a href="https://store.vmware.com/"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-2816 size-full" src="http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN.png" alt="Black Friday banner graphic" width="779" height="262" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN.png 779w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-300x101.png 300w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-768x258.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-600x202.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/Blog-BF2021-FusionProFusionPlayer-779x261-EN-624x210.png 624w" sizes="(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px" /></a></p>
  1287. <p><a href="https://store.vmware.com/">It&#8217;s that time of year again!</a></p>
  1288. <p>The biggest sale of the year this time around offers <em><strong>up to 30% discount</strong></em> on your favorite Desktop Hypervisor products: <em><strong>VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Fusion Player!</strong></em></p>
  1289. <p>Upgrades have never been cheaper, with 20% discount on top of the already reduced 2020 pricing!</p>
  1290. <p>Upgrade from Fusion 10 or Fusion 11 &#8216;standard&#8217; to Fusion 12 Player (commercial license) for only $63! (USD)<br />
  1291. Or upgrade your copy of Fusion 10 Pro or Fusion 11 Pro to the ultimate: Fusion 12 Pro for only $80! (USD)</p>
  1292. <p><figure id="attachment_2817" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2817" style="width: 440px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://store.vmware.com/"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-2817" src="http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020-668x1024.png" alt="" width="440" height="674" srcset="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020-668x1024.png 668w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020-196x300.png 196w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020-768x1177.png 768w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020-1002x1536.png 1002w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020-600x919.png 600w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020-624x956.png 624w, https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/files/2020/11/bf-fusion-2020.png 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2817" class="wp-caption-text">Black Friday Sale discounts expire on 11/29/2020 @20:59 (Pacific Time). Valid on select products. Discounts as marked for each country. Screenshot is from the US Store</figcaption></figure></p>
  1293. <p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/09/fusion-12-now-available.html">Why Fusion 12?</a><br />
  1294. So many features!</p>
  1295. <ul>
  1296. <li>macOS Big Sur Support!
  1297. <ul>
  1298. <li><a href="https://www.mikeroysoft.com/blog/mac-metal-vms/">New experimental 3D graphics in macOS Big Sur guests!</a></li>
  1299. </ul>
  1300. </li>
  1301. <li>Build and run Containers and Kubernetes clusters out-of-the-box with <code>vctl</code>,&nbsp;<code>kind</code>&nbsp;and <code>minikube</code></li>
  1302. <li>DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 3D Acceleration with eGPU support for incredible graphics</li>
  1303. <li>Latest Windows 10 20H2 Guest Support, as well as popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu 20.10</li>
  1304. <li>Monster VMs with 128GB of RAM and up to 32 vCPUs</li>
  1305. <li>Performance improvements, bug fixes and more!</li>
  1306. <li><a href="https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal">Free Personal Use license for VMware Fusion 12 Player</a></li>
  1307. </ul>
  1308. <p>Sale ends on <em><strong>Sunday Nov 29</strong></em>, so hurry before it&#8217;s too late!</p>
  1309. <h1><a href="https://store.vmware.com/">Shop Now!</a></h1><p>The post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/11/black-friday-sale-2020-is-on.html">Black Friday Sale is On!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion">VMware Fusion Blog</a>.</p>
  1310. ]]></content:encoded>
  1314. </item>
  1315. </channel>
  1316. </rss>
  1317.  

If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:

  1. Download the "valid RSS" banner.

  2. Upload the image to your own server. (This step is important. Please do not link directly to the image on this server.)

  3. Add this HTML to your page (change the image src attribute if necessary):

If you would like to create a text link instead, here is the URL you can use:

http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/feed

Home · About · News · Docs · Terms

 
Copyright © 2002-9 Sam Ruby, Mark Pilgrim, Joseph Walton, and Phil Ringnalda