Goody! Â A new VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available!!! Â Why am I excited? Â Well, I prefer Parallels, but for some reason Parallels doesn’t work on my Mac Pro. Â It complains that the hard drive is unavailable, and can’t be found.. Â Yet, if I make any configuration changes, it now magically works, until I reboot the computer… Â VMWare works fine, and never has a problem… Â It’s just slightly slower… Â Hopefully this will bring it up to par with Parallels…
The VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta is now available at http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/fusion.
This beta software includes 10+ new and improved features including:
- More Powerful Graphics Performance for Games & 3D Apps: OpenGL 2.1 support for Windows Vista and Windows 7, DirectX 9.0 SM3 performance improvements, Windows Aero performance improvements, better OpenGL compatibility for modeling apps
- Improved USB Support: USB “EasyConnect” makes it simple to assign a USB device to a virtual machine or your Mac and then remembers preferred settings for each USB device
- Support for larger virtual machines: 8-way SMP support added, maximum virtual hard disk size increased from 950 GB to 2 TB
- Improved Boot Camp Support: Improved disk performance for your Boot Camp VMs, better handling of disk configuration changes to avoid duplicate entries, option to avoid authentication dialogs when using a Boot Camp virtual machine
- PC Migration Improvements: Migration status displayed on PC, now avoids port conflicts, guest account issues on Mac OS X now resolved
- User Experience Improvement Program: VMware uses information obtained through the User Experience Improvement Program to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of our products and to plan our future development and testing. Participation in the program is voluntary and you can opt out at any time.
- Many Additional UI Improvements and Various Fixes: See the VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Release Notes for more information.
via VMware: Team Fusion: VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available.