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Virtualization has long been important for Mac users, especially those who have to manage multiple platforms for their work. With Apple’s small share of the desktop market, virtual machines are a necessity for Mac users who can’t get by without access to Windows applications.

While virtual machine products from the likes of VMware, Parallels, and VirtualBox provide convenient ways to run Windows and other operating systems on your Mac, Apple’s recent upgrade to OS X Lion has the software makers scrambling to ship updates. VMware and Parallels have both released new versions that let Windows applications integrate with Lion-specific features such as Launchpad and Mission Control, and take advantage of Apple’s decision to let users run additional instances of Lion in virtual machines.

Ars has an extensive review comparing VMware Fusion 4 and Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac in the works. In the meantime, I'm going to focus on Fusion and cover its major selling points in this hands-on piece.

I’ve been testing Fusion for a couple of days to run the following guest operating systems: Windows 7 Home Premium, the Windows 8 developer preview, Ubuntu Linux, and OS X Lion. I've used Parallels to run Windows 7 and Linux for nearly the past year, so I decided to give the competition a shot. My computer is a 2010-model MacBook Air with a 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of memory, running the latest version of Lion.

The minimum system requirements for Fusion are as follows:

• Any 64-­?bit capable Intel Mac. (Compatible with Core 2 Duo, Xeon, i3, i5, i7 processors or better)
• Minimum 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
• 750MB free disk space for VMware Fusion and at least 5GB for each virtual machine
• Mac OS X 10.6.7 or later; OS X Lion recommended

First, I imported the Windows 7 virtual machine from version 6 of Parallels, and created new virtual machines for Windows 8, Ubuntu and Lion. The setup process was easy for all four. Importing Windows 7 from Parallels took just a couple of clicks, and installing new guest operating systems happens in a similar fashion. Before installation of VMs, you have the opportunity to customize the amount of memory allocated to each VM and whether it can access one or two processor cores. I granted each VM one processor core, while giving Ubuntu 1GB of memory, about 1.5GB to each copy of Windows and 2GB to the extra instance of Lion.

Windows 7 on Mac

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Running Windows 7, perhaps the most common virtualization scenario for a typical Mac user, has been relatively smooth, but integration with the Mac desktop is a work in progress. Unity mode lets Windows applications run in much the same ways as Mac apps, with each app getting its own icon and window rather than being contained inside a window that holds the entire Windows desktop. Unity mode didn’t work for me at first. Once I reinstalled VMware Tools I was able to activate Unity, but I still occasionally get error messages that say 'VMware Fusion cannot enter Unity,' and sluggishness while running Windows apps in Unity mode. When this happens, the tried-and-true methods of just waiting a long time or restarting the virtual machine usually work.

Once in Unity, you can add Windows programs to either the Mac applications folder or your Launchpad, an iPad-like screen of application icons developed for Lion to provide quick access to frequently used software. The default applications that come with Windows are not added automatically. But each time the user installs a Windows application, it is added to the Launchpad and Mac apps folder, as long as the “Run Windows applications from your Mac’s Application folder” option in the settings has been enabled. Additional Windows/Fusion apps can be added to the Mac application folder and Launchpad at any time by opening the app, right-clicking its icon in the Mac dock, and clicking the appropriate option.

While this approach avoids flooding the Launchpad with unnecessary apps, it doesn’t work perfectly. For example, when I upgraded Internet Explorer 8 to IE9, both Internet Explorer itself and the IE9 setup utility were placed in the Launchpad.

The method for removing the IE9 setup utility from Launchpad was not immediately apparent. Clicking the Option button in Launchpad allows you to delete some, but not all, application icons. The option to remove the IE9 setup utility from Launchpad did not appear on my first attempt, but I was able to remove the icon from Launchpad after deleting the utility program from the Mac Finder.

This little hiccup was a side effect of VMware’s generally correct approach of highlighting only the applications that users install themselves. Instead of loading up the Launchpad with every last Windows app, VMware’s end-user computing director Pat Lee tells me “The approach we took with Launchpad/Applications is that by default users only care about user installed applications being shown on the Mac side.... When you turn on this feature, the applications that are not part of the default install for Windows are added to the Applications folder and Launchpad. The same thing happens for newly installed Windows applications automatically.”

Integration with Lion’s Mission Control works well. Using the four-finger swipe to enter Mission Control, I was able to see all my currently running applications from both Mac and Windows. But if you would rather keep Windows and Mac applications separate, you can exit Unity mode and view the guest operating system and all of its applications in a single window, which can be shown in partial- or full-screen mode. I prefer seeing the Windows desktop in one place, perhaps because I was a longtime Windows user before purchasing a Mac last year. But Windows 7 on my Mac also just seems to work better when Unity mode is disabled.

Lion in a virtual machine

The ability to run multiple instances of Lion in virtual machines on a Mac is now allowed because of updates to Apple’s licensing rules. This could prove useful to developers who want to test changes without altering the host operating system, but it has limits. The rules permit running Lion desktop software in a VM, and current and past versions of Mac Server software including Lion Server, Snow Leopard Server and Leopard Server. Snow Leopard desktop is off limits.

Some users would want the right to install Snow Leopard desktop software in a VM to run PowerPC applications no longer supported on Lion, but Apple’s policy doesn’t allow this, and the feature is thus not enabled by VMware. Out of curiosity, I tried installing a DVD copy of the Snow Leopard client OS which I purchased, but VMware greeted me with the message, “you can’t use this version of the application Install Mac OS X with this version of Mac OS X.”

Installing Lion itself, however, was pretty easy. To obtain the extra copy of Lion, I re-downloaded it from the Mac App Store. The process for downloading Lion again isn’t immediately obvious. But if you go into your purchased items, hold down the Option key and click on OS X Lion you’ll be given the option to install it again. Once the Lion installer is downloaded, select the option in Fusion to create a new virtual machine and drag the installer from the Finder to the virtual machine window, and installation will proceed as usual. You can choose to import from a Time Machine backup or just install a clean copy. While I have no current use for two copies of Lion on the same machine, the application performance seems adequate.

Windows 8 developer preview and Ubuntu Linux

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VMware was quick to support the Windows 8 developer preview, the next-generation version of Windows released in a rough beta by Microsoft earlier this month. Installing the Windows 8 preview is a good opportunity to see the Metro interface in action, but it’s not fully baked. Some of the apps on the new Start screen would not open for me, which appears to be a known problem related to screen resolution. VMware Tools, which are developed for the major guest operating systems to prevent errors in display, audio and mouse capabilities, are unavailable for the preview. Still, the ability to run an early copy of Windows 8 in a VM will be useful for developers who want to prepare for next year’s release.

For Mac-owning Linux fans, VMware Fusion also provides a good way to run both operating systems. I’ve had problems in the past running Ubuntu on Parallels, specifically difficulties installing Parallels Tools, leading the OS to display incorrectly. I haven’t updated to Version 7 of Parallels, so I can’t speak to that, but VMware Tools on Fusion 4 installed correctly the first time for me.

Not surprisingly, the new OpenGL-based “Unity” interface of Ubuntu (this is different from VMware’s Unity mode for Windows) could not load in a VMware virtual machine. Ubuntu’s Unity is more ideally suited to a bare-metal installation, but reverting back to the GNOME interface is no problem.

Ready to buy?

The full price of Fusion 4 is $79.99, with promotional pricing of $49.99 available until the end of 2011. Customers who bought Fusion 3 on or after July 20 are eligible for a free upgrade.

Parallels Desktop 7, meanwhile, is also optimized for Mac OS X Lion and costs $79.99 or $49.99 to upgrade from a previous version. Parallels offers a special price of $29.99 to Fusion users who switch to Parallels Desktop.

Parallels offers the added benefit of an iPhone and iPad app that lets you access Mac-based virtual machines on your mobile device. This app was free when I downloaded it, but now costs $4.99 and will eventually get bumped up to the full price of $19.99. VMware offers a View client for the iPad, but it only works in conjunction with a VMware View hosted desktop deployment, and not with Fusion. By contrast, even with the year-old Parallels Desktop 6 I can use my iPad to access the instance of Windows running on my Mac.

While VMware dominates the world of server virtualization, it has a tougher fight on its hands for Mac desktop users. VMware’s Lee told me that Fusion’s target market is mainly people who have switched from Windows to Mac and still need compatibility with Windows apps. But he said VMware is attempting to distinguish itself from Parallels by providing that compatibility in a more “Mac-like” way.

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“We try to blend in, not stand out,” Lee says. “We don’t put an alias on the desktop. We blend into the background.”

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It’s an interesting time for virtualization technology. Stay tuned to Ars in the coming weeks for our Parallels Desktop vs. VMware Fusion shootout.

For macOS virtual machines you install or upgrade VMware Tools using an installer assistant.

If you use VMware Fusion or ESXi on a computer with an Apple label, you can create Mac OS X Server (10.5 or later) virtual machines and install VMware Tools.

• Power on the virtual machine.
• Verify that the guest operating system is running.

Procedure

1. Select the menu command to mount and open the VMware Tools virtual disc on the guest operating system. VMware Product

   Menu Command
   vSphere Client	Inventory > Virtual Machine > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools and select Interactive Tools Installation or Interactive Tools Upgrade
   vSphere Web Client	Right-click the virtual machine in the vCenter inventory and select All vCenter Actions > Guest OS > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools
   Fusion	Virtual Machine > Install (or Upgrade) VMware Tools

2. Open Install VMware Tools on the VMware Tools virtual disc, follow the prompts in the installer assistant, and click OK.

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The virtual machine restarts to have VMware Tools take effect.