Hello world! Desktop virtualization just got a whole lot better with the release of VMware Fusion 4.
I’ve been using internal builds of Fusion 4 for months, which is one of the perks of being a VMware employee1. It’s been awesome to watch it come together. I’ve especially liked the performance improvements. As a 64-bit Cocoa app, it got a fair performance boost over Fusion 3 just from that. The development team has also done some performance tuning that’s turned it up a couple of notches too.
Personally, I’ve got a Win7 VM on my work machine right now. I keep on meaning to burn through a bunch of disk space and install a bunch of other OSes2, and with the Win8 preview out there, I’ll probably check that one out too.
Fusion 4 is $50 through the end of the year, and I hear that there are coupon codes out there (as of this writing, I see that there’s one in the comments of the blog post I linked above) to knock it down even further. Go forth and purchase!