The seamless way to run Windows, Linux, and other PC operating systems on your Intel-based Mac, VMware Fusion gives you the freedom to run Windows and Mac applications side by side on your Mac. They operate inside a secure and isolated virtual machine, protecting your Mac from any Windows crashes or instability. You can find and launch Windows applications quickly with the VMware Fusion launcher. Or switch between Windows and Mac applications with Expose. You can even minimize Windows applications to the Mac OS X Dock.

VMware Fusion is the perfect complement to Apple Boot Camp. Use your existing Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine, or use the built-in Windows Easy Install to install a fresh copy of Windows on a new virtual machine. What you get is the flexibility to run Windows XP alone or alongside Mac OS X.

Now it’s easier than ever to switch to a Mac. The free VMware Converter Starter Edition transforms your Windows PC into a VMware Fusion-compatible virtual machine, so you can then copy the virtual machine from your PC to your Mac.

Features

• Run Windows on your Mac without rebooting
• Create powerful multi-core virtual machines
• Use your iSight camera and other Mac hardware in Windows
• Access Windows-only USB 2.0 devices
• Use Shapshots to save the state of your virtual machine, and revert back to that state if your Windows “machine” crashes
• Freeze the exact state of your virtual machine with the Suspend feature, then quickly resume work without restarting Windows
• Play select DirectX8 8.1 games
• Run 64-bit operating systems
  
  

System Requirements

• Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
• Intel Core Duo processor (Core 2 Duo or Xeon processor required to run 64-bit operating systems)
• 1GB RAM
• 275MB free hard-disk space for VMware Fusion
• 1GB free hard-disk space for each virtual machine (10GB or more recommended)
• “Guest” operating system, such as Windows Vista/XP/2000/Me, SUSE Linux 10.1, Red Hat Linux 9.0, Ubuntu Linux