VMware Fusion

Designed from the ground up for the Mac user, VMware Fusion leverages the full power of Intel-based Macs to seamlessly run Windows applications side-by-side with your favorite Mac applications.

VMware Fusion is available for purchase online and available through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores, Amazon.com, Buy.com, CompUSA, MicroCenter, and from over 3000 VMware partners worldwide.

The suggested retail price of VMware Fusion is $79.99USD.

Yes. If you are not completely satisfied with the VMware Fusion for any reason, you may return VMware Fusion, together with your receipt, to the vendor from which you have acquired it for a refund of the money you paid for the software (less shipping, handling, and any applicable taxes) at any time during the thirty (30) day period following the date of purchase. If you have purchased the VMware Fusion directly from VMware, please see our return policy for VMware Fusion for further instructions.

Yes, VMware Fusion offers complete support for Microsoft Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions with copy and paste of text, drag and drop of files, shared folders, and screen resizing.

Yes, VMware Fusion offers full support for more than 60 operating systems including a wide variety of Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris distributions. See the Getting Started Guide for more details.

Yes, VMware Fusion 1.1 is fully supported on Mac OS X Leopard.

Yes, VMware virtual machines are fully compatible across the product line. So virtual machines created with Workstation, Server or VMware Infrastructure can run on VMware Fusion.

VMware virtual machines created with VMware Fusion are fully compatible with VMware’s latest products including VMware Workstation 6.0, VMware ACE 2.0, and VMware Player 2.0.

Yes. VMware Fusion allows you to run any of the over 550 virtual appliances available in the marketplace. Virtual appliances are pre-installed and preconfigured applications that are packaged along with an operating system in a self-contained virtual machine that is ready to run on any hardware.

Yes, VMware Fusion has experimental 3D graphics support allowing you to play select DirectX 9.0 games in Windows XP Service Pack 2 virtual machines. See the VMware Fusion release notes for more information.

Yes, you can use the vast majority of USB 2.0 devices such as video cameras, high-speed hard disks, GPS devices, and much more in a virtual machine.

Yes, VMware Fusion allows you to create and run 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines. However, you can only run 64-bit guest operating systems on Intel Macs with 64-bit processors (Core 2 Duo or Xeon).

You can assign up to 2 CPUs to a virtual machine, so the virtual machine will harness the full power of a Mac with an Intel Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, or Xeon processor.

Yes, VMware Fusion leverages patented memory-sharing techniques to drastically reduce the memory required to run multiple virtual machines at the same time.

To send the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keystroke combination to a virtual machine, do one of the following:

• From the Virtual Machine menu, select Send Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
• If you are using an external PC keyboard, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
• On a full-sized Mac keyboard, press Control-Option Forward Delete . The (Forward Delete) key is below the Help key.
• On a MacBook or MacBook Pro keyboard, press Fn-Ctrl-Option-Delete.

By default in VMware Fusion, you can use Control-click to enable a right click with the Apple Mighty Mouse. In addition, you can also enable the secondary button for the Apple Mighty Mouse by going to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse and selecting Secondary Button in the drop-down menu for the right side of the mouse.

By default in VMware Fusion, you can use Control-click to enable a right click with the trackpad button. In addition, the MacBook and MacBook Pro trackpad can be configured to right-click by using two fingers to click. To enable this on a MacBook or MacBook Pro trackpad, go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad. You have two options to enable the two-fingered right-click:

1. If "Clicking" is selected, ensure "Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click" is selected.
2. Otherwise, ensure "Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click" is selected.

A: The delete key on Apple keyboards is actually the backspace key to all other operating systems. To send the DEL key to a virtual machine, do the following:

• On a MacBook or MacBook Pro keyboard, press Fn-Delete
• On a full-sized Mac keyboard, press the Forward Delete key. The (Forward Delete) key is below the Help key.

A: Mac keyboards do not have an obvious INSERT key. To send the INSERT key to a virtual machine, do the following:

• On a MacBook or MacBook Pro keyboard, press Fn-M.
• On a full-sized Mac keyboard, press the Help key.

A: Mac keyboards do not have a PRINT SCREEN key. To send the PRINT SCREEN key to a virtual machine, do the following:

• On a full-sized Mac keyboard, press the F13 key.

If you use a non-English keyboard layout on your Mac, configure the same non-English keyboard layout in your virtual machine's keyboard settings.

Mac keyboards do not have an AltGr key. To send the AltGr key to a virtual machine, do the following:

• On a full-sized Mac keyboard, press the right Option key.
• On a European MacBook or MacBook Pro keyboard, the Enter key next to the right Command key (otherwise known as the numeric pad Enter key) is remapped to Alt-Gr on Mac laptops. This is overridden when Num Lock is used to enable numeric keypad support.

VMware provides a wide variety of self-help support resources for VMware Fusion users including online video tutorials, FAQ, searchable knowledge base, and active discussion forums, and other support resources are detailed under VMware Fusion Support.

VMware provides a wide variety of self-help support resources including discussion forums, searchable knowledge base, and product tutorials under VMware Fusion Support. In addition, VMware offers 30 days of complementary web-based technical support after purchase.