VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2024/05/fusion-pro-now-available-free-for-personal-use.html

332 171 2 years ago

blogs.vmware.com

I've mixed feelings on this. One side I love it's free, the annual pricing seems reasonable to what it was. On the other, i've been so burned by their pricing for everything else with clients that i'm reticent to be thankful.

I suppose it's a step in the right direction, bringing back ESXI for homelab users would be a good step too.

lostlogin• 2 years ago

bringing back ESXI for homelab users would be a good step too.

It would be interesting if they did. So many have now tried Proxmox and liked it.

justinclift6• 2 years ago

Yeah. Once the Proxmox team fixed the recent kernel bug that caused migration hangs with Ryzen/EPYC hardware (~20% of migrations just hung), things have been pretty great.

Presently trialling a HA cluster with it, and likely to deploy that to a local data centre in the next few weeks.

riffic• 2 years ago

all the homelabbers have moved on to proxmox ve

accrual2• 2 years ago

bringing back ESXI for homelab users would be a good step too.

I agree and frankly I think it was smart VMWare had a a free tier for homelab users. It produces new users who can now more easily enter the workforce with ESXi experience they might not otherwise have.

By locking it down and jacking up prices they'll squeeze out more money now, but eventually the market will shift to whatever everyone has the most experience with, which might end up being Proxmox.

mickelsen• 2 years ago

Given that this is owned Broadcom now, and they are going all in with squeezing every last drop from ESXi and similar offerings, I wonder what's gonna happen with Fusion in the future; while now you only pay for commercial usage, maybe they are going to let it rot over the years until it's no longer cutting edge software? Would they keep it as a loss-leader?

AshamedCaptain10• 2 years ago

Workstation was already rotting for all intents and purposes. Likely Fusion was also rotting since the switch to ARM but never tried it.

The entire space ("desktop virtualization") is dead. Even VirtualBox which I praised a year ago seems to be slowing down.

This likely just poisons the well for a market they had all but abandoned.

bee_rider• 2 years ago

I don’t know anything about high-end workstations really. But I wonder if the whole ecosystem is in a rough spot generally? Seems like cloud tooling is always getting easier.

Shame really, people do fun stuff with excess compute.

ghaff2• 2 years ago

Pretty much all desktop virtualization/VDI/etc. products have been de-emphasized by essentially everybody except to the degree that they're a largely free byproduct of server virtualization. I doubt any company is devoting more than a minimal number of resources to these products--maybe Apple more than others. Red Hat, for example, even sun-setted its "traditional" enterprise virtualization product in favor of Kuvevirt on OpenShift. And a VDI product was pretty much abandoned years ago.

Thaxll2• 2 years ago

Virtual box was never good, it always felt half baked.

bombcar4• 2 years ago

Fusion became basically worthless when you couldn't easily run Intel Windows on a Mac anymore because the underlying processor changed.

stephenr2• 2 years ago

... I've had a Fusion licence since v10 was current (~2017) and I don't think I've used it to run Windows even once.

TylerE2• 2 years ago

Can’t even run x86 Linux on Mac right now

eduction• 2 years ago

Worthless for some use cases but there are reasons to run Mac-on-Mac vms, including testing, development, and security (isolation). The first two also apply to some folks (maybe not many) for Linux VMs.

michalf6• 2 years ago

ARM Windows seems to be able to run x86 apps, though. I use an ARM Windows on an M1 mac to run BMW E-Sys and it works well enough.

gorkish10• 2 years ago

If you want to virtualize something with good performance on desktop windows you use Hyper-V; if you want to do it on mac you use Apple's Virtualization Framework; if you want to do it on Linux you use KVM.

Desktop virtualization products used to bring the secret sauce with them; now that every OS ships with a well-integrated and well supported type 1 hypervisor they have lost much of the reason for existing. There's only so much UI you can put in front of off-the-shelf os features and still charge hundreds of dollars per year for.

rcarmo3• 2 years ago

They still need to. You are glossing over the fact that you need to provide device access, USB access, graphics, and a lot of things that are not necessarily provided by the "native" hypervisor (HyperKit does not do even half of what Parallels does, for instance).

basil-rash2• 2 years ago

It’s not the UI you charge for, it’s the Enterprise Support Plan.

fifteen1506• 2 years ago

Worse, it's actively worse VMware on Windows vs Hyper-V.

packetlost• 2 years ago

VMWork workstation still has a massive leg up in 3d (and to some extent, 2d) video acceleration. Many programs need this to run smoothly these days

Thaxll2• 2 years ago

Hyper v doesn't have 3d acceleration, so if you play game or want to use linux desktops it's pretty bad.

doublerabbit• 2 years ago

And if you want to do it on FreeBSD you use bHyve.

netrap• 2 years ago

If you want to pass through USB, SCSI, or something like that then VMWare Workstation is better than Hyper-V for sure.

NikolaNovak2• 2 years ago

Am I the only one who explicitly does not want type 1 hyper visor on my desktop? Am I out dated?

I like workstation and virtualbox because they're controllable and minimally impactful when I'm not using them.

Installing hyper v (and historically even WSL - not sure if it's still the case but it was never sufficiently explicit) now makes my primary OS a guest, with potential impact on my gaming, multimedia, and other performance (and occasional flaky issues with drivers and whatnots).

Am I the only grouchy geezer here?:-)

ycombinator_acc• 2 years ago

I would never use "performance" and "Hyper-V" in the same sentence.

unnouinceput• 2 years ago

Hyper-V does not have PCI passthrough and with that you lost me, while ESXi does. Also I want to test my multiplatform software on all major OSes (MacOs included) ESXi is then the only one that can run Darwin in parallel with rest.

justinclift6• 2 years ago

Snapshot support in at least Libvirt based KVM still sucks. :(

As in, technically it supports snapshots.

But try have a tree of different snapshots of a VM based upon different points in time.

Super useful when doing integration work and testing out various approaches that evolve over time as things progress.

With VMware Workstation I've been able to do that for years, for Libvirt based KVM it's not even possible.

To be clear, I really wish it could be done in Libvirt/KVM too. ;)

Shank• 2 years ago

I'm surprised they're making Workstation and Fusion free, given that they killed off the free ESXi/vSphere hypervisor. Seems strange?

bombcar4• 2 years ago

I suspect they knew (and to be fair, probably correct) that a decent number of small businesses (and maybe even larger ones) were using ESXi and they just decided to shut that down in a push to get more licenses.

If my theory is correct, in about two years (if they haven't killed it entirely by the) they'll introduce a "free for homelab use" variant - maybe.

But Workstation and Fusion were more used by personal people and as a support tool FOR professionals, so they needed to keep those going, but charging $79 for it just wasn't worth the hassle. Notice they're not even selling ANY licenses directly anymore; you have to go through someone else. VMWare sold directly.

ghaff2• 2 years ago

Not just not worth the hassle. The product being free now means that if someone files a bug report or request for enhancement, they can more easily just shrug and say "won't fix."

bonton89• 2 years ago

You could use Workstation Pro to directly assess VMs running on an ESXi server, so maybe the idea is to make company's more dependent upon the central infrastructure where they can squeeze.

You could actually cajole the free player to do this with ESXi but it was definitely not license kosher.

justsomehnguy• 2 years ago

What @bombcar said.

"Free" ESXi is.. well, free. They are converting enterprises to enterprise customers. Some bloke with WKS is not an enterprise customer.

rcarmo3• 2 years ago

I'm trying to figure out exactly how Broadcom expects to profit from this, and what this says for their development and support roadmap.

bhako2• 2 years ago

I was wondering if its related to data gathering for ai

nullstyle2• 2 years ago

Orbstack now serves 100% of my virtualization and docker needs on macOS. Hopefully I'll never feel the need to install virtualbox or fusion or parallels ever again.

renewiltord2• 2 years ago

Orbstack is really nice on an M1. But occasionally I run into the need for a GUI application and then I'm stuck. Is it possible to use Orbstack for that?

nullstyle2• 2 years ago

I haven't had that need, sorry. What applications?

lenerdenator• 2 years ago

I mean... hooray?

It's probably useful for the HomeLab crowd, but when you get an idea and want to scale it for business purposes, you get screwed by their recent commercial market moves.

There's the beginnings of real FLOSS virtualization projects out there. Broadcom will make some money off of the acquisition as measured by quarterly statements, but it's not sustainable over the long run. It's not 2005 anymore. Step on enough toes and the nerds will build their own and give it away for free.

luma• 2 years ago

My guess here: the product isn't valuable enough to sell off (see Horizon), the customers who buy the product aren't in their list of 600 accounts that they want to focus on, and the invoice price is a rounding error next to their enterprise offerings.

Broadcom is bloodthirsty and I'd suggest they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts but there is little evidence that they have one.

gorkish10• 2 years ago

When they say "Free" what they mean is these products are now the walking dead. They are on maintenance only support until any existing commercial contracts expire at which point they will be cancelled.

In this case, I admit that I think it's the right thing to do. These products don't really need to exist as commercial offerings except for a few very niche cases.

soneil• 2 years ago

It doesn't sound like they're trying to kill them, since they're moving commercial usage to a subscription license.

I'm not sure killing them actually makes a lot of sense - the products apparently share a lot of code with esxi, so it's two products for the R&D of one.

bithavoc• 2 years ago

I don’t trust them anymore

system22• 2 years ago

Nobody does. We all moved to other hypervisors now.

CSDude• 2 years ago

It's almost impossible to create an account with all of the delays. Even then, I got into a loop in "Trade Compliance Verification" which does not proceed.

dist-epoch2• 2 years ago

On Windows (Pro) Hyper-V is free, and quite good. Maybe it's less user friendly.

Windows also has Sandbox (based on container technology), which replaces creating a VM to test some software without affecting the system.

qzx_pierri• 2 years ago

yeah Windows Sandbox is pretty great. I use it to test sketchy software when sailing the high seas. And the option to add shared readonly folders on the host OS is nice too.

TowerTall• 2 years ago

How do you test sketchy software when Windows Defender is disabled in Windows Sandbox?

haunter• 2 years ago

There is the Hyper-V Server 2019 [0] too which was also free and a standalone OS unlike the current version. I use that on a 2nd PC, you can also install a full GUI [1] on top of the webadmin interface so pretty good actually.

0, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-...

1, https://gist.github.com/bp2008/922b326bf30222b51da08146746c7...

gettodachoppa4• 2 years ago

Anyone reading this, don't expect a smooth experience for desktop Linux under Hyper-V.

Hyper-V's team only cares about supporting servers. You're not gonna run a full-screen Ubuntu VM without a lot of banging your head against the wall, unless you spend days trawling random Github comments and reddit posts and fixing it whenever it breaks.

dist-epoch2• 2 years ago

If you want Ubuntu use Hyper-V Quick Create instead of booting the .iso you downloaded. That takes care of the integration things.

ryanmccullagh• 2 years ago

I had purchased Fusion Pro recently due to the better graphics support in comparison to VirtualBox. I wonder what the catch is here.

flaxton• 2 years ago

Download doesn't seem to work. The VMware download area closed in late April, and can't seem to download Fusion now. The replacement store doesn't seem to be available yet.

I'm using Parallels and it is great on an Apple Silicon Mac, but I'm a long-time VMware Workstation and Fusion user, so I'd like to try it again.

kevingadd• 2 years ago

As a paying Workstation customer, I had to install it from scratch the other day and couldn't find a binary anywhere. I eventually found an old installer on archive.org (!) and settled for that. Grateful to whoever had the foresight to point the Wayback Machine at VMWare's CDN before it was too late.

trollbridge2• 2 years ago

And we paying customers did buy a perpetual licence. Better archive that download and save your key somewhere…

skydhash• 2 years ago

You have to go over to Broadcom website. The VMware store is still down.

raybb• 2 years ago

What timing. Literally yesterday I was trying to set this up on my Mac and went with UTM instead. It worked excellently for getting Kali Linux up and doing a WLAN USB passthrough.

whalesalad2• 2 years ago

Fortunately the open-source VM space is the best it has ever been these days. No reason at all to use proprietary crap anymore.

nxobject• 2 years ago

I've had a lot of frustration getting the SPICE tools to work with slightly older Windows OSes (Windows 7 in my case), for what it's worth.

jareds• 2 years ago

What open source options would you recommend for running Linux and Windows VM's on Windows? I've been unhappy with Virtualbox because the audio quality is abysmal which is an issue since I use screen reading software. I'm interested to try out VMWare Workstation since it's audio support was pretty good many years ago when I used it at a prior job.

darby_eight3• 2 years ago

Performant 3d acceleration in the guest OS is still quite difficult to find an open source solution for, and linux these days relies heavily on this for window management. Mac hosts at least have ParavirtualizedGraphics, even though I don't think the popular open source clients have support for it yet.

segasaturn• 2 years ago

They're very late to do this IMO, but better late than never. I am certain that VMWare has not been selling many Workstation licenses to personal users (costing ~$300 each) and making the products free gives free advertising and mindshare to VMWare. Visual Studio is a good example of this, Microsoft making Visual Studio free for personal use in 2014 provided a huge boost to a platform that a lot of people had written off as dead, irrelevant, gray corporate software.

chrisandchris• 2 years ago

Except that VMWare is owned by Broadcom, which is known for only being interested in Fortune 500. That doesn't at all apply to Microsoft. No sane people will buy into VMWare anymore if 500k in cash is not a rounding error of your budget.

IshKebab• 2 years ago

to a platform that a lot of people had written off as dead, irrelevant, gray corporate software.

I don't think many people had written Visual Studio off like that in 2014. Maybe now, given VSCode. But that didn't exist in 2014.

darby_eight3• 2 years ago

What is Visual Studio used for these days? Of course windows development, and I'm guessing xbox development too. Anything else?

DannyWebbie• 2 years ago

Primary IDE for Unity and Unreal. Microsoft has been extending beyond Microsoft platforms, so I imagine a decent chunk of Visual Studio use is for cross-platform development.

oblio3• 2 years ago

I'm guessing it's still the IDE of choice of game devs.

Kipters• 2 years ago

AFAIK it's also the primary IDE for Sony and Nintendo SDKs

TillE• 2 years ago

It's probably the best C++ IDE out there, with a great debugger. For C# a lot of people prefer Rider, but in terms of free options VS is much better than VS Code.

pizza234• 2 years ago

VMWare has not been selling many Workstation licenses to personal users (costing ~$300 each) and making the products free gives free advertising

Not really. The VMWare Workstation Player had the same engine (but less management functionality) so personal user could actually use a VMWare virtualization product. For basic usage (including snapshotting), which fits a non-commercial user, it was a fitting choice.

Therefore, it's good that they're essentially giving more functionality for free, but they did have a free offer before (for non-commercial users).

opentokix• 2 years ago

Don't get them get away with this, continue to migrate away from it.

dmitrygr• 2 years ago

Now go try to download it. All links are broken.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumbe...

https://www.vmware.com/content/vmware/vmware-published-sites...

https://customerconnect.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads/info...

gruez• 2 years ago

Found a mirror here: https://github.com/201853910/VMwareWorkstation/releases/tag/...

The windows binaries have valid authenticode signatures so at least those haven't been tampered with.

laweijfmvo• 2 years ago

Here is a simple KB that describes what to do: http://kb.vmware.com/s/article/97817

Another broken link...

Stagnant• 2 years ago

I spent like 15 minutes trying to find an official download link, even registered a broadcom account but that was a waste of time as well. Ended up finding a working download link from some reddit comment. It seems to contain all versions of fusion, player, workstation and remote console.

https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/

rekoil• 2 years ago

I had an expired trial license, after updating it now prompts me that my license is expired, but then seems to work just fine instead of closing haha. Thanks for the link!

justinclift6• 2 years ago

Cool, this is the working direct download repository with indexing enabled. :)

groosha• 2 years ago

This link works for me just fine:

https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdownloads?subf...

tw04• 2 years ago

This is how you know that they're not putting another dime into R&D.

system22• 2 years ago

Who cares. They killed ESXi. They are no use to SMBs and people who want to learn virtualization.

michaelmrose• 2 years ago

Does this offer anything over virt-manager on Linux?

justinclift6• 2 years ago

Really good snapshot capabilities, if that's your kind of thing.

Workstation (and Fusion too I think) also provide DirectX 10 + 11 support in Windows VMs.

So if you're wanting to run software that uses that in a Windows, you'll need something like Workstation or Fusion since virt-manager can't (yet) do that.

fulafel• 2 years ago

The ransomware epidemics targeting ESXi vulnerabilities probably triggered an exodus to other hypervisors and this could be an attempt to hang on to some users.

throwitaway222• 2 years ago

I mysteriously stopped needing vmware or virtualbox the year docker came out, I wonder why...

belter2• 2 years ago

"7 Ways to Escape a Container" - https://www.panoptica.app/research/7-ways-to-escape-a-contai...

gettodachoppa4• 2 years ago

I'm a casual Docker user, ran maybe 30 images my whole life. I've never used any of these flags and didn't know most of them even existed.

Are these serious threats? I mean it seems like common sense that if you give a malicious container elevated privileges, it can do bad stuff.

Is a VM any different? If you create a VM and add your host's / directory as a share with write permissions (allowing the VM to modify your host filesystem/binaries) does that mean VMs are bad at isolation and shouldn't be used? Because that's what these "7 ways to escaper a container" ways look like to me.

remram• 2 years ago

Those are all explicit privileges given to the guest. You can also "escape" from a VM if you give it access to the Docker daemon on the host...

It's like saying "2 ways to escape an unprivileged user account: 1. type su then the root password, or 2. convince the admin to setuid your shell"

pjmlp2• 2 years ago

Since Microsoft came up with WSL, I no longer have the need for VMWare Workstation.

This is how products get killed.

gettodachoppa4• 2 years ago

I'm the opposite, I need these desktop hypervisors because Hyper-V is trash for anything but a WSL shell or server VM.

I upgraded to Windows 11 for WSLg (figuring it would replace my Linux desktop), and it was buggy trash. You can't even get a high-resolution Ubuntu desktop (from Microsoft themselves, their own quickbox!) without jumping through hoops, searching all over reddit for knowledge obsoleted by the next update, tweaking arcane settings and running misc Powershell scripts. To say nothing of the occasional freezes.

By enabling WSL2/WSLg, your Windows host is now a privileged guest running under Hyper-V as a hypervisor. Which means lightweight desktop hypervisors like Virtualbox run like trash.

I ended up removing WSLg/turning Hyper-V off, using Virtualbox for desktop Linux, and using WSL1 (not 2) to have a quick Linux shell without enabling Hyper-V.

I'm now considering Workstation due to the superior graphics in the guest over Virtualbox.

pjmlp2• 2 years ago

If you are running Windows 10 with secure kernel, driver guard, among others, this features require Hyper-V.

Secondly Windows 11 doubles even more on having Hyper-V running for even more security capabilities.

I also think the future is type 1 hypervisors, and in regards to performance, my computers are beefy enough to hardly notice any major impact.

As for Linux configuration problems, business as usual, there is always something that needs hand holding, and I have been using distributions since Slackware 2.0 in 1995's Summer.

I also mostly used Virtualbox only when not allowed to use VMWare products, due to cheap project delivery conditions.

trollbridge2• 2 years ago

Have been a happy Fusion Pro customer for years, including buying upgrades. A user can install 5 seats which includes both Workstation and Fusion, so I could have it on my Mac desktop, iMac, and Linux desktop. The licence was very clear it is kosher for commercial use. And it was perpetual, no worrying about annual renewals.

Beware the new “free” licence, which is emphatically not for commercial use. Get caught accidentally using the personal licence and your company will be on the hook to pay whatever Broadcom wants you to pay. Oracle did similar shenanigans with VirtualBox (watch out if you download the extension pack) and Java (watch out if you install a JRE on your desktop and use it to compile/develop certain software!)

This does open a market opportunity for Corel/Parallels which is mostly at feature parity with VMware… the main reason I liked using VMware Fusion was solid integration with ESXi, which also won’t be a concern anymore as with the Broadcom acquisition that’s a platform I’ll be trying to avoid.

ganoushoreilly3• 2 years ago

They provided the method for continuing to purchase the license (much the same way it was before with digital river). $120 annually.

senectus12• 2 years ago

Controlling/watching for that in a large env is going to be a pita.

JumpCrisscross• 2 years ago

Beware the new “free” licence, which is emphatically not for commercial use. Get caught accidentally using the personal licence and your company will be on the hook to pay whatever Broadcom wants you to pay

Common way to do this would be to keep an eye out for large fundraises, and then track back to see if you can catch them using the personal license early on.

andyjohnson0• 2 years ago

I used to have (paid, personal) VMware Workstation licence, but switched to VirtualBox after they stopped updating Workstation and a windows update stopped it working. I thought it was a decent product.

I'd rather not use an Oracle product (VB) but are there any advantages in switching back? Main use is running Ubuntu VMs on Windows.

INTPenis• 2 years ago

This is probably the first step to shutting down development of these products.

First of all every desktop now has its own mature virtualization.

And secondly, Broadcom has no interest in this market.

downrightmike• 2 years ago

Wonder how much tracking shit got crammed in recently

AYBABTME• 2 years ago

Pro free for now, or Pro is free abandonware. Both cases discourage adoption.

Open-source would help if there's any desire to keep it alive, otherwise this is a nice gesture but I would read this as a signal that I should stick away from it because it's dead or a trap.

swarnie• 2 years ago

Who is spinning up home test environments looking for decades of support?

My VMs are doing pretty well if they last the quarter.

plorkyeran• 2 years ago

We have a whole bunch of automation built around VMWare Fusion for creating and deploying macOS VMs (for CI testing). The VMs aren't long-lived, but the code using VMWare Fusion certainly is and it's a nontrivial project to migrate to a different virtualization system. Thankfully for us we were already planning to do that migration before the acquisition.

bzmrgonz• 2 years ago

MEH!!! qemu for the win! "Hardware Virtualization Support: Qemu is capable of running virtual machines without hardware virtualization support, also known as software virtualization. On the other hand, VMware Fusion requires hardware-assisted virtualization to run virtual machines efficiently."

bhako2• 2 years ago

Fuck me, i just drop it to use vbox. I migrated all my vms.

oblio3• 2 years ago

I love how many people just aren't reading the article.

First of all it's both Fusion, the Mac software and Workstation, the Windows one.

Secondly, they're making them free for personal use. They're still paid for commercial use and it's going to be a subscription.

justinclift6• 2 years ago

... and Workstation, the Windows one.

Workstation also runs on Linux. :)

As a data point for anyone else running it on Linux, this repo is probably what you should keep an eye on for updated VMware modules that work with newer kernels:

https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules

The ones bundled in VMware Workstation officially tend to break in weird ways as new kernels come along. (!)

oblio3• 2 years ago

Separate note: what do folks use to virtualize Windows on Linux? Is anything good enough to run older games in Windows in a VM? Think Dota 2 (I know it's available for Linux, just using it as a perf reference).

m463• 2 years ago

Proxmox can do this. It is free software. It will work best if you passthrough your graphics card. I also passed through a USB controller and used my dac for sound. You can run most versions of windows in a VM, also macos and linux.

moondev• 2 years ago

quickemu is great for this

badrabbit2• 2 years ago

I paid for it already lol. Should it not be "broadcom fusion" now? I am already getting emails about migrating my vmware account to broadcom.

senectus12• 2 years ago

Should it not be "broadcom fusion" now?

Given Broadcom's actions they need to rename it to "Broadcom fission" :-P

badrabbit2• 2 years ago

Good one!

berniedurfee• 2 years ago

Shoot. I saw Fusion and thought Autodesk. I’d forgotten that VMware was still a thing.

manishsharan2• 2 years ago

Proxmox is completely free to download and deploy without any cost. For commercial and personal use.

ricktdotorg• 2 years ago

my longterm homelab of ESXi 6.x on Intel NUC with unlimited license hack recently blew up (repeated power surges, no UPS). went with Intel NUC again but proxmox instead for the rebuild and its been a dream so far. i don't miss ESXi or Vmware in general one bit.

manishsharan2• 2 years ago

This is my setup: Nuc +Proxmox+ K3S. My goal is to set up a Kubernetes Cluster spanning 2 NUCs with K3S to build my playground for any application I decide to develop.

rekabis• 2 years ago

For this who use this product, a query:

I have been using Hyper-V since the early days, and run it on both my development iron (Win11 23H2, heavily castrated) as well as my personal (non-commercial) Win2k22 21H2 Datacentre servers.

Why should I choose VMware over Hyper-V?

Genuinely curious.

raminf• 2 years ago

Started as a Fusion user, then Parallels on the Mac. Then back to Fusion. Each Windows or MacOS update would break something.

Toggled back and forth maybe 5-6 times. Finally settled on Parallels and stopped upgrading Fusion. Haven't had problems since.

Glad it's free now, but that sometimes means the company is going to stop investing in it.

VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use

Related Stories