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VMWare Fusion Pro FREE for personal use
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 8:19 pm
by OpenXTalkPaul
A little PSA:
The virtualization software VMWare Fusion Pro is now free for personal / non-commercial use!
https://www.macworld.com/article/668080 ... eview.html
Re: VMWare Fusion Pro FREE for personal use
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:57 pm
by richmond62
"visualization" ?
Don't you mean 'virtualisation' ?
Re: VMWare Fusion Pro FREE for personal use
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:04 pm
by OpenXTalkPaul
richmond62 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:57 pm
"visualization" ?
Don't you mean 'virtualisation' ?
Yup, I corrected that.
Re: VMWare Fusion Pro FREE for personal use
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:14 am
by tperry2x
I'm generally using QEMU appimages currently, as then I don't need to install anything to the system and the virtualisation environment isn't tied into kernel changes - which can break things quite easily if you swap kernels in a distro [
powerPC version /
Intel x86 version]. On MacOS there's
UTM and / or
Whisky, and under Windows -
QtEMU provides a GUI for QEMU too, although that's only being added to now-and-then. There's
also Hyper-V on Windows too of course, depending on what you need (if you were running multiple VMs at once and interested in load balancing etc). On Windows, you also have WSL for running Linux as well.
If you are running VMWare in Windows 11, you might want to read and use the settings
here to offset slow performance.