VMworld 2013: What's New in VMware Fusion

What's New in VMware Fusion

Simon Bennett, VMware

Mick Foley, VMware

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Us

sbennett@vmware.com mickf@vmware.com

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Please

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Designed for OS X Mavericks

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Designed for OS X Mavericks

New Full-Screen

Enhanced dictation

Mavericks guests

Windows 8.1

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Demo

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Per VM Limits

Fusion 5 Fusion.next

Cores 8 16

RAM 8GB 64GB

Boot disk 2TB 2TB

Non-boot disk 2TB 8TB *

vSATA No Yes

* Not BusLogic

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Demo

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Mac OS X Guests

IOAccelerated 2D graphics

Full resolution on 15” Retina Mac Book Pro

Drag and drop support

Time Machine back-up and restore

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Restart to BIOS/EFI

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ESXi or vSphere in a VM

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SSD Lies

scsi0:0.virtualSSD = auto | true | false

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vmrun

vmrun -T fusion checkToolsState ”…/Windows 8.vmwarevm”

Running |

installed |

unknown

vmrun -T fusion getGuestIPaddress ”…/Windows 8.vmwarevm"/

192.168.65.1

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Vagrant Fusion Provider

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Professional for Desktop Administrators

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Demo

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Professional – Expiring Virtual Machines

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Professional – Expiring Advanced Settings

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How it Works

curl -I https://rvm.vmware.com/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:37:41 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)

Last-Modified: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:52:55 GMT

ETag: "c002-0-4e2bd70bd67c0"

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

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Single Virtual Machine Mode

/Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/config

installerDefaults.simplifiedUI = TRUE

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Single Virtual Machine Mode

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Summary

Updated for the latest OSs

Much higher limits

Improved OS X support

Linked Clones

“Time Bomb” Virtual Machines

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One more thing…

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Thank You

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THANK YOU

What's New in VMware Fusion

Simon Bennett, VMware

Mick Foley, VMware

EUC5634