VMware Fusion is a desktop application that lets you create and run virtual machines on your Intel-based Mac. VMware's first product for the new Intel Macs makes it easier than ever to take advantage of the security, flexibility, and portability of virtual machines. VMware Fusion provides an intuitive user interface for creating virtual machines, and for running preconfigured virtual machines created with VMware Workstation, VMware Server, and ESX Server. With VMware Fusion, you can run your favorite Windows applications on your Mac. You can also download virtual machines from the VMware Technology Network (VMTN) Web site, which has a growing library of virtual appliances with a wide range of pre-installed and preconfigured applications and operating systems.
Issues Resolved in VMware Fusion 1.1.1
VMware Fusion 1.1.1 is a maintenance release that contains fixes for a variety of issues.
- VMware Fusion now transparently remaps keyboard shortcuts when the user goes back and forth between applications in the guest and in the host. For example, VMware Fusion remaps
-X to Ctrl-X in the guest. The same remapping happens for
-Z/-C/-V/-P/-A/-F.190476 -->
- The number pad Enter key on European keyboards is always treated as AltGr. NumLock no longer disables this feature. 220890 -->
- This release fixes host and guest connectivity problems that could arise when using wireless networking.172947 -->
- VMware Fusion 1.1 contained a fix so that suspending a virtual machine located in a FileVault folder no longer makes the system unresponsive. The problem reappeared with Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard), and this release fixes it in this version of the OS as well.178871 -->
- Print jobs sent from the guest to a Kodak AiO 5100 series printer are now successful. 189853 -->
- When the user starts up a Boot Camp virtual machine, the password prompt now has focus, so that the user can type in the password without first having to move the mouse over the dialog box to select it. 195868 -->
- A problem causing the application to hang at launch, and for which the workaround was to delete the plist, has been fixed in this release. 202908 -->
- In some instances users with Mac OS X 10.5.0 and 10.5.1 could get a soreceive corrupted . . . kernel panic. Version 1.1.1 fixes this problem. 203210 -->
- Version 1.1.1 corrects a problem in which VMware Fusion was producing an error message when a user attempted to enable promiscuous mode for an Ethernet adapter in Mac OS X 10.5. 203546 -->
- The SRS iWOW plugin no longer breaks the sound in VMware Fusion. 217939 -->
- This release fixes a problem with the internal microphone when VMware Fusion runs on Mac OS X 10.5. 218677 -->
- Version 1.1.1 corrects a caps lock LED synchronization problem that could lead to a kernel panic in vmioplug. 218707 -->
- This release fixes problems with using the mouse after installing VMware Tools on a Ubuntu 7.10 guest. 217845, 200612 -->
- This release fixes a problem that resulted in a hang when certain volumes were accessed from an HGFS share. 222632 -->
- Having a Digidesign CoreAudio plugin no longer causes a bouncing vmx icon to appear in the Dock with a "Not Responding" label in Activity Monitor. 218707 -->
- In some cases, a VMware virtual machine would not recognize a hardware breakpoint set in an application and would not stop the code execution. This problem has been fixed. 224459 -->
Some Apple OS X bugs affect VMware Fusion 1.1.1.
- As a workaround for Apple bug 5679432 (Mac OS X hang under heavy disk load when unbuffered I/O is in use), VMware Fusion 1.1.1 disables unbuffered disk I/O on Mac OS X 10.5 hosts, even when the user selects Optimize for Mac OS application performance in VMware Fusion preferences. 225029 -->
- A bug in the operating system would, in some cases, result in all applications running with root privileges following a upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.1, instead of how the user originally set them. This would prevent VMware Fusion from reading its own files. This has been reported to Apple to be addressed in a future release. 221947 -->
Download VMware Fusion and Virtual Machines
You can download VMware Fusion and obtain a serial number at www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/buyfusion.html.
You can download a Getting Started Guide for VMware Fusion at www.vmware.com/pdf/fusion_getting_started_11.pdf.
You can download virtual machines to use with VMware Fusion at www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/.
You can view the VMware Fusion 1.1.1 Release Notes at http://www.vmware.com/support/fusion/doc/releasenotes_fusion.html.
Thanks to Richard Cardona for the heads up on this release!