--- title: VMware Fusion Reviews meta_title: 'VMware Fusion Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 126 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how VMware Fusion works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 126 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # VMware Fusion Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Server Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 126 ## About VMware Fusion VMware Fusion is a powerful desktop hypervisor developed by VMware, enabling Mac users to run multiple operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, and other versions of macOS, concurrently with their native macOS environment. This capability allows for seamless integration and operation of diverse applications across different platforms without the need for dual-booting or additional hardware. Key Features and Functionality: - Broad OS Compatibility: Supports a wide range of guest operating systems, including various versions of Windows, Linux distributions, and older macOS versions, facilitating diverse development and testing environments. - High-Performance Virtualization: Utilizes hardware-assisted virtualization technologies to deliver efficient and responsive virtual machine performance, ensuring smooth operation of applications within VMs. - Seamless Integration with macOS: Features such as Unity mode allow Windows applications to run alongside Mac applications, providing a cohesive user experience without switching between operating systems. - Advanced Graphics Support: Offers support for DirectX and OpenGL, enabling users to run graphics-intensive applications and games within virtual machines. - Snapshot and Cloning Capabilities: Allows users to capture the current state of a virtual machine, facilitating easy rollback to previous configurations and efficient management of multiple VM instances. - Support for Apple Silicon: Recent versions have introduced compatibility with Apple’s M-series chips, expanding support to the latest Mac hardware. Primary Value and User Solutions: VMware Fusion addresses the need for Mac users to access and operate applications exclusive to other operating systems without compromising the macOS experience. It is particularly beneficial for developers, IT professionals, and power users who require cross-platform compatibility for testing, development, or running legacy applications. By providing a stable and high-performance virtualization environment, VMware Fusion eliminates the need for multiple devices or complex dual-boot setups, streamlining workflows and enhancing productivity. ## VMware Fusion Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find it **super easy to deploy** a Dev environment VM on MacBooks, even the M\* series models. (1 reviews) - Users find VMware Fusion to be **super easy to deploy** a Dev environment VM on their MacBooks. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **hardware support** of VMware Fusion, making VM deployment effortless on M\* series MacBooks. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **difficult navigation** of the Broadcom portal for downloading Fusion extremely confusing and frustrating. (1 reviews) ## VMware Fusion Reviews ### 1. Must have for every MacOSX user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun K. | Wireless Architect , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Allows me to run applications that otherwise will need an extra computer, excellent Windows 10, Suse and CentOS support. Because the MacBook has better hardware many application run better in the virtual machine than natively on my last computer **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** When opening fusion it briefly disconnects the principal network adapter of the MacBook creating a brief pause in the network and VPN connections **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** VMWare tools are your friend. Makes the experience a lot more enjoyable over time. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running Windows applications and Linux scripts directly on my Macbook without the need of rebooting or switching hardware ### 2. A necessary program for every MacOSX user. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ersin S. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** You can run programs that are not available in MacOSX. Office performance is the same inside or outside the VM so I can work in the VM and use my MacBook as a Windows machine. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Fusion itself is an amazing program but it would be better if the apps ran natively. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** You can run as many VMs as your PC supports but for better performance is better to run 1 or 2 at most. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running applications that are not available natively on MacOSX ### 3. Great virtualization software for MacOSX **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luna C. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** You can export and import VMs, I changed my MacBook and exported my Windows VM, then imported it into my new MacBook and worked perfectly. All my windows apps were there and worked exactly the same as in my last machine. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Nothing, really solid and reliable software, some applications run even better than in my windows laptop **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** There is no real alternative for Virtualization in MacOSX, this is just the best. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running Windows applications in my MacBook ### 4. Quite basic virtualization tool for mac users **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristina C. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Fairly nice interface, and straightforward controls. Allows USB-porting to the virtual machine, which can be a bit of a hassle in other programs I've encountered. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** It has a steep learning curve, but it isn't too much of a problem if you're not doing anything too complicated. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It does what you expect from a virtual machine, allowing MAC users to run different versions of Windows, or Linux distributions, which is not an unusual need for software development aimed at running on any operating system. ### 5. Good Virtualization Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neeraj G. | Reporting & Data Analyst Intern, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I was using VirtualBox on my Mac for virtualization and it felt very outdated and slow, lagging the system every now and then. Switched over Fusion and it worked like a charm, everything was easy and quick, being able to use Windows programs at full speed on my mac is a great help. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Copying over from the local machine to the main machine can be a bit irritating, I feel like that is one sphere they could do better. Also although much better priced than Parallels I still think it's a tad bit overpriced. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** If you're looking to run Windows apps on your mac, Fusion is the way to go, although I'd recommend using the trial version first which makes it easier for you get value for your money. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to use Windows programs side by side on Mac has been a lifesaver, I can basically run all the software I need on one machine, platform independent. ### 6. Best virtualization software when you have a MAC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel C. | Consulting engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I have used many flavors of linux and windows under this virtualization software and some even run better than native. It's amazing how good this thing works. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** adding network cards and integrating takes time **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** It's worth the price, i think it's the best **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with virtual machines in several operating systems ### 7. Life saver for MAC guys **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush J. | Technical Lead at Cisco Cloud and Managed Services (Bank of America), Computer Networking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I love this tool. Without it i cannot do my work in office because most of the tools do not run on MAC OS and i have to have a windows machine. So, i installed Windows on VMWARE fusion and use it everyday. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Recent upgrades causes some copy paste issues and also i have noticed it creates some unnecessary temp files. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tools on windows ### 8. My impressions **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** One of the things that impressed me most in this wonderful application was the fact of allowing MAC to have almost all the functionalities of a virtual machine manager in Windows. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** What I did not like so much is that the visual part I see a little old or at least can improve. Additionally, on some occasions we have reported failures when executing an ISO image, thus having to configure or alter the configuration of the application so that it works correctly **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** It really is very fun to use and it is very good to use it in companies that require technicians making prubeas and other issues related to these **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very good to implement small environments for software testing. In addition this application has benefited us to the preparation of our technicians at the level of software implementation through the practice in vm fusion ### 9. Amazing way to use different operating system in a mac enviroment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I use several linux, windows 7, windows 10 machines without rebooting my machine and it has an awesome integration with the host operating system. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** It can be resourse intensive when using windows as a target OS. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** It's the best software for virtualization in mac, it's expensive but worth the price **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need to use programs that are available only in windows or linux and with Fusion i I don't need to change between machines or keyboards to do what i need to do. ### 10. Invaluable Virtualization Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** The VMware Fusion software allows to network simulation with a multitude of virtual machines deployed. The flexibility is exceptional. The ability to create a private networks for the virtual machine on the host machines is amazing. This lends to the VMware Fusion software being an invaluable testing and demonstration tool. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** The VMware Fusion software does not have a map view of virtual machines on the network you create. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** The VMware Fusion software is available as a trial, so you can get familiar with the software. I recommend the Pro version of the software because it makes creating flexible networks much easier. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** A flexible and dependable platform that supports virtualization of virtual machine as appliances or operating system deployments with various addressing configurations. ### 11. Much easier than VirtualBox, but not cheap. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh T. | Program Manager, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** VMWARE Fusion is extremely easy to use and customize. We use it to setup various Linux VMs on new generation Macbook Pros and even on the dual-core models (quad-core is usually recommended when running VMs), Fusion 10 Pro is extremely fast. I especially like the full screen mode and the compatibility with many of the native drivers on the MacBook pro. It is extremely easy to configure Fusion to work with many local components, such as the webcam, bluetooth and USB-C inputs. Extremely easy migrations as well. On the 15in macbook pros, GPU performance and integration within fusion is substantially better than previous models. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Software is expensive with Fusion 10 Pro costing $160. Can be a bit sluggish when you have multiple VMs at once, but that is mostly a limitation of the hardware. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** VirtualBox is free and may be enough if you don't need or cannot afford the simplicity and benefits of Fusion. On the other hand, Parallels is much easier to use than Fusion, but you are severely limited with customization. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We develop software primarily on macs and many of the open source programs we use are only compatible with linux. We use Fusion to create quick and easy VMs that allows us to take advantage of these programs. ### 12. Great product, easy to use, no complaints **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jon L. | HR and IT Manager, Human Resources, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I use VMWare Fusion to run Windows 7 Pro side by side my Mac OS on my Macbook Pro. It allows me to have both OS's running simultaneously and all I have to do is use a multi-finger swipe to switch screens. It's also nice that it doesn't affect my machine's performance either. My MacOS still runs just like it would without a VM running simultaneously, and I don't have to partition as much RAM or HDD space to the windows machine as I would've thought initially! **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** It was a little bit difficult to set up on the front end. If the set up (specifically, in my instance, of a virtual machine running Windows 7 Pro) could be easier and more user friendly that would be great. It was a little bit cumbersome and took me 2 tries to get it set up. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Use it! It's worth it and it works really well. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me run two OS's simultaneously. This allows me to be able to work with our Windows users as well as our Mac Users, while still running and primarily using MacOS which I prefer for my work. I can run windows-only apps, I can troubleshoot problems from a MacOS and WindowsOS standpoint as well. The best part is I don't have to log out or close my MacOS to do any of that. A simple swipe to the right lets me access my Windows machine and move forward. ### 13. Great virtualization platform for macOS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Maritime | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** A feature-rich virtualization platform that works well on macOS. Allows you to run virtually any OS on your Mac, and does it well. The Pro version has a strong feature set, allowing management of vSphere/ESXi servers. Another plus are the frequent updates to the product. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** The upgrade price of new versions, which are typically released on an annual basis, could be better. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Also look into the Parallels product. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows one to run Windows or Linux on their Mac, something that is very useful for developers. ### 14. Excellent computer virtualization software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex F. | Technical Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Simple to use. Easy to configure the machine options. Runs various systems (windows, mac and Linux) as virtual computers. Means you only need one physical device to be able to perform multiple tests and checks. VMware tools replace various windows drivers to make the system performance very good. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Uses a lot of RAM to run the VMs. Each VM uses a lot of disk space especially if you install lots of applications in the VM. The more processes in VM you run the slower the VM will become less responsive. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Excellent virtualization tool. Easy to use and configure. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our support department when a customer logs an issue with a particular system we can use the VM's to test on those system without needing a physical computer for each system. If a customer has less RAM we can easily change the RAM to perform a similar test. ### 15. Windows Virtual Machine for Mac is Tweaky **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tara Nicole B. | Media & Communications Specialist, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I appreciate that there is an option for running necessary-for-work windows OS applications in my Mac OS environment **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** I hate how it minimizes everything on its desktop view. In order to make it viewable, the screen resolution must be changed, and that's an inconvenience for a number of reasons. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Suck it up and deal with it, and be glad your primary job doesn't require you to use the Windows Virtual machine regularly. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves access to Oracle based applications we need to use. I haven't realized any real benefits. ### 16. Works well, useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neil B. | member, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Pretty easy to use. But Parallels Desktop beats VMWare Fusion on features, setup and the fact it can inherit an existing bootcamp win partition. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Compared to Parallels Desktop, with Fusion it's WAY harder to install Windows and there's a lot more setup to do it seems. I have both, but just use Parallels now, so have currently no Win installs on Fusion. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Look at Parallels also, one great feature, Parallels can inherit a virtual machine from Bootcamp, so you can run (the same copy of) win natively if software problems arise and need diagnosis. That's far easier with virualisation out of the picture **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good to be able to run Win on a Mac for client support sessions ### 17. Easy to Use, Great for Testing Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** What I like best about VMWare Fusion are the feature rich capabilities and support for different operating systems. Fusion works seamless with Mac and the ability to configure guest operating systems is easy with support for screen resolution and local file system access after installing VMWare Fusion tools on the guest operating system. Take snapshots of operating system images is easy with the ability to annotate. Bridged, NAT and direct network configuration options are also helpful when connecting virtual machines to one another. The ability to do drag and drop is also helpful between the host and guest operating systems. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** What I dislike is that sometimes there are compatibility issues when multiple users on a workstation are sharing the same virtual machine using different local accounts. If VMWare could improve the synching, that would be helpful and welcome. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** My recommendation to others considering Fusion is to use the trial edition first before deciding on a final product for your organization. Updates to VMWare Fusion are regularly released so ensuring that your copy is up-to-date is easy since a check is performed every time you use it. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problems we are trying to solve with Fusion is software and web application testing. The benefits we have realized are the rapid testing environment and the ease of use of testing web applications. Having the ability to roll back to a previous state is extremely helpful and has reduced testing time. ### 18. Best Virtualization platform for Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik W. | Owner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Support for nearly all Windows versions is excellent, integration is nearly seamless and the Pro version makes managing ESX environments a snap! The ability to upload a VM to an ESX host is especially helpful for moving a test system in to production. The speed and responsiveness of the guest OSes with minimal resource allocation is impressive. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Need to purchase every major version upgrade as maintenance in not readily available.When switching between full screens the resolution reverts if it was changed making switching between the host and guest OS a bit annoying. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** If you need to run Windows on a Mac Fusion is by far the best app for the job. It works incredibly well and offers excellent hardware sharing. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** You're able to manage a Windows and VMware server environment without needing to maintain a physical Windows workstation. This is ideal for organizations that need to support both Mac and Windows workstations. ### 19. Best Virtualization Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** It's very plug-and-play, You only need the installation of the OS you want to implement and you are up and running. It's also nice to sandbox within another copy of your own OS if you have the memory and disk space, which can be nice for a variety of applications including development and security. Also there are a lot of small uses that make having two machines in one box great, the like ability to have the newest version of iTunes on my main machine but being able to download and unzip apps using iTunes on the VM. Also, the unified clipboard feature is very nice. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** It is a bit large and the files it creates are not portable, and does not play well with dropbox. In short, this might be a good application if you are using it yourself but it does not play well with others. I'd like to see that change over time. Also whenever I connect the third USB monitor on my MacBook, f a vm is running it totally crashes the system, which is not a great experience. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** It's hard to really recommend anything because it's very easy to get started. I do recommend giving your VMs more RAM than they recommend, being selective with which folders the VM sees unless you trust it 100%, and always backing up your VMs. Also, remember to clear out disk space both in the VM and reclaiming space in the general settings menu. Look for more VMs than just 'windows' on a mac or vice versa; you can also virtualize an android tablet, and may of the same features work. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I virtualize a windows environment because I require a lot of tools for my job that are windows only, including OriginLab. The only way to hook the editable graph export to Word feature is by virtualizing an entire system. In addition, I use it for meeting software that sometimes other scientists may need, as I don't want bloatware/malware on my main machine; I am very selective with the files it has access to. Also I was able to run a version of the Android tablet software and run an otherwise mobile-platform-specific app without needing to pull out my iPhone to run the software, which is extremely convenient. ### 20. A valuable tool for development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthias R. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** The possibility that i can use the same VM with Fusion on Mac and also with VmWare Player/Workstation on Windows. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** There is nothing that i dislike. Sorry. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Try Fusion and you´ll we see it´s power **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are developing on Mac OS X and deploy to Mac, Linux and Windows. VmWare Fusion allows us to test our software on Fusion VMs with Linux and Windows. ### 21. I Live in VMware Fusion All Day **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lance D. | Energy Conservation Project Manager, Renewables & Environment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I like that I can run Windows 7 on my Mac, without losing the integrity of the Windows installation. Aside from that, the real winner is that I can control the backup schedule (snapshots), which is really important when running Windows. I keep a clean installation, but when things do go poorly I can restore a recent snapshot and I am back up and running within minutes. A top-tier feature. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** The Mac has a hard time staying cool and devoting real power to the VM, but that is to be expected when running both at once. I use a MacBook with 3 additional screens and that really wreaks havoc for Windows, or VMware - not sure which one is the point of failure. The general rule is: don't close the laptop or enter sleep mode without first suspending the VM. Also, do not change the number of screens while the VM is running because it panics and locks you into one screen across all available screens, until rebooting the VM. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** It just works. I've never had a problem with it that was the result of the software. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to perform the duties of two classes of work on the same machine: graphics on the Mac (because I am most familiar with design on a Mac), and project management on Windows (because MS Office is far superior on Windows than macOS). ### 22. very fast, technical interface, a bridge between OSes and cheaper pricing but requires higher RAM!!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhaval S. | IT Analyst (Level 2 production support Lead & Application Infrastructure analyst), Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** 1. VMware Fusion is very fast and reported the highest benchmark ranking. 2. More of a technical interface rather than the attractive looks of Parallels. 3. I didn't notice any performance difference between Fusion and Parallels while running a VM of Windows 8. 4. Allows you to run your Windows programs within OS X. 5. Solid integration between the two operating systems, including conveniences one would expect like clipboard sharing, drag-and-drop, the ability to launch Windows programs from the dock, etc. Easy to share files between the two. 6. Handy wizard lets you migrate your existing PC over to a virtual machine for use inside of VMware Fusion, which can be great for new Mac converts who are still nervous about leaving Windows behind. 7. Pricing is also cheaper than Parallels, and for personal (non-commercial) users, the license extends to however many Macs you own. 8. The ability to run and test out multiple Operating Systems and tools from one workstation. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** 1. Doesn't look nearly as good as Parallels. 2. Performance is solid, but still somewhat reduced by the virtualization of the guest OS. 3. Requires plenty of RAM, and since newer Macs cannot be upgraded, make sure you plan ahead in this department when buying hardware. Also, you will need a Windows operating system license, which will raise the cost of this solution. 4. Resource limitations to run some multiple Operating Systems can be too intense for a basic workstation. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** 1. If you are a light user just looking to virtualize Windows, get Parallels. 2. It's a tough call between Parallels and Fusion but in my experience Fusion is a tad more stable and easier to use but both products are excellent. Checkout the list of features and there are some unique features for each product. 3. Just be wary when deploying this to a group, administration of this software in on a user by user basis. There is no central management as in VDI or VCenter which makes administration more tedious. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. The development team being supported needed ways to test out different version of java, browsers, etc before they deployed their builds. Fusion allowed the Mac users to test on their workstation also. ### 23. Makes Using Windows-Only Programs A Lot Easier For This Mac User **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ernie D. | SVP, Digital Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Being able to use Windows-only programs right on my Mac without having to break out a PC. Speeds up workflows a lot! I use this to test websites on IE on my mac and also used it for BingAds editor for a long time until they just recently finally came out with a mac version. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Copy and paste between my main machine and my virtual machine is spotty. Does hog a lot of resources when I'm running on my Macbook Air, slowing down my computer. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** If you have software that is windows-only and want to make it compatible with your mac, this is does the job perfectly! Looked into other options and this is like actually having two computers in one. The price doesn't set you back too badly either. You will need to shell out for a windows license to make this work. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I first started using this so that I didn't have to break out a different computer each time I wanted to use BingAds editor. I've also found it is helpful in testing sites on IE right from my mac. ### 24. A must-have for a developer and everyday user **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Max O. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** As a Mac user, I often encounter have to open Windows programs that are not available for Mac. VMware fusion works perfectly, without occupying much of the resources. It launches fast and integrates well with the current system, allowing to copy and paste documents and text between the host and virtual machine. I personally tried every OS there is with VMware and have not encountered any compatibility issues. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** I often run background tasks in my virtual machine and it would be nice to be able to lock it with password protection. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** I recommend on not assigning to much RAM and CPU to your virtual machine if you are not going to perform any intensive tasks in it. This way your host and virtual machine will run smoothly **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I often need to open files that business partners send me in applications that are only available for Windows (for example CorelDRAW, 3DsMax etc.). My Windows virtual machine launches in VMware Fusion within minutes without interrupting my workflow, so I don't need to reboot my Mac and boot into Windows. Thats saves a lot of time for me, so I can view a document within couple of minutes, quit VMware Fusion and get back to what I was doing before. Also, when I develop a new website, I check the final product in different operating systems and in different browsers. And all of that is done within minutes. So VMware Fusion is definitely a timesaver. ### 25. So easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Handing files off between platforms is so easy. The interface is easier to understand than I thought. I have not had any issues with fusion since I installed it over four years ago. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Nothing! The file transfer between Mac and PC is the only issue I thought I would have, and it has not been a problem so far. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a graphic designer so most of my work is done on the Mac side. However, some programs such as ArtiosCAD and Internet explorer require a windows workspace. This has allowed me to work in both operating systems on one computer. ### 26. Virtual Machines on the fast **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas W. | Co-Founder, Co-CEO/Solution Architect, Information Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** VMWare Fusion is a fast way for me to set up Windows VMs on my Macbook - yeah, there are situations where one just cannot do without MS Windows. It allows for easy copying the machines, which basically behave like any ole Windows computer. A very nice tool is the seamless integration of Windows applications into the Mac Desktop. Also the good integration into the host's file system is very valuable. Lastly, the VM acts like an additional computer, which in some situations facilitates being on different networks. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** I find the sales integration with the Antivirus software annoying. Just make it part of the product. Sometimes I wished to have multiple VMs active at the same time. Reconfiguration of an existing VM could be made a bit simpler (e.g. changing no of cores, amount of RAM, HDD space dedicated to VM) **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** don't be shy with the hardware of the planned host computer. The better the merrier. I run it on an early 2011 Macbook Pro with a 512 GB SSD, 8 MB of 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM and 2 GHz Intel Core i7. You should not have less, especially RAM. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are some situations (especially when I am working with clients) where I just need to use a Windows machine, be it because they do not like Macs in their network or plainly because the SAP GUI for Windows works far better than the Java or web ui versions. Some off the shelf software (e.g. the old accounting software that I use) needs Windows, too. ### 27. Great Option for running Windows on my Mac **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas V. | Associate Pastor, Religious Institutions, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Overall, I like the ease of use of VMware (I'm currently using version 7). It was a quick and easy install and getting a virtual machine up and running took very little time. A few of the specific settings were frustrating (see the "What do you dislike" section). The ability to have my Windows software running side by side with my Mac software makes my workflow as productive as possible. I also was very happy with Technical Support and the speed with which the communicated when I had questions or issues. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** A few of the settings were difficult to get figured out, such as network and printer settings. It seems like it should have been easier to get my wireless printer to be recognized by VMware. I have my Mac set up on a wired network, but also a wireless for printing, and I could only get VMware to recognize one of those connections at a time. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** I think it is a great option for anyone wishing to be able to use the Windows and Mac operating systems side by side on the same machine. I considered a few different options, and am very happy I chose VMware Fusion. The cost of the product is well within what I considered reasonable for the benefits I get from it. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a huge benefit having the ability to run all the software that I need on one machine. Before, I had to keep a Windows PC as well as a Mac to be able to do everything my job requires. Being able to use a dual monitor setup gives me my two operating systems side by side on the same machine, with no extra space wasted! ### 28. Great for mac on a budget. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** It runs guest OS Virtual machines with ease on my mac's. from windows, to Linux. A great must for anyone who needs access to windows based programs that don't run on mac (Microsoft no likey!) or Linux based programs on a PC. Can also drag and drop files from the guest OS to your own desktop. Makes things easier! It runs better than virtual box too ;) **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Compared to Parallells, it isn't a smooth running and can be abit laggy! **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having access to multiple guests OS makes developing easier, faster and more dynamic among different OS without the need of a bunch of different test machines! ### 29. Just OK for the money **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I think each release of Fusion improves upon the last. Installing and configuring new virtual machines is fast and simple. Snapshots are easy if sometimes not automatic and reliable. I don't use it, but there's integration into VMware's public cloud built in. A lot of projects will have premade VMware virtual machines that are easy to import and get working, which is very handy. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** No integration with ESXi, even though it's made by the same company AND there's a commercial "Professional" version available. It'd be great to send VMs you configure locally to your ESXi production cluster. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** It's a no brainer. The only other option is Virtual Box, which isn't an option for some environments (though it is a solid product that competes well with Fusion). **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to spin up virtual machines for testing and one general windows VM for windows software I can't get away from. It's great to make 2 or 3 VMs and test out a new thing before deploying it elsewhere in our environment. ### 30. Good for mac users for specific applications but quite slow **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** At my work, some application doesnt have mac version, so i have to use it and it gives the exact windows feeling and i like that. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Very slow at times and crashes which makes it annoying to use at times and affect my performance **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Even being a mac user, Its not stopping my work for the specific windows supported applications ### 31. Flexible and well-supported desktop virtualization environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan M. | Information Technology, Parts Sales, Automotive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** VMware Fusion offers the flexibility and compatibility of the VMware environment in a fast and usable OS X wrapper, and with solid OS X integration for supported guest operating systems. It's a well-crafted product, and the developer community offers somewhat broader driver support for VMware than they do for its major competitor, Oracle's VirtualBox. VMware Fusion is definitely a desktop user-oriented product, and shows a clear developer focus on Windows guests, with quick, integrated access to apps in Windows VMs available through Fusion's OS X menu bar application. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** VMware Fusion's preference interface, while slightly more "Mac-like" in appearance than VirtualBox, also obfuscates details which VirtualBox exposes (such as the specific identities of emulated chipsets), complicating the configuration of older or less well-supported OSes which do not have VMware drivers available. The Fusion interface also buries some necessary functions several levels deep. Switching optical or floppy drive images, for instance, requires several clicks in Fusion, while VirtualBox places recent media in a simple drop-down menu on the main application frame. Finally, headless operation and server integration is not as transparent in VMware Fusion as it is in VirtualBox, and VMware's offerings are quite different on different host OSes. Slightly better breadth of guest OS support may not justify the purchase of VMware Fusion for many users, when VirtualBox is available for free, and better exposes its more powerful features to the user. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** VMware Fusion is one of those packages which you will know if you need: if you have to run prebuilt VMware virtual machines on OS X, and don't want to spend a day or two converting them, there aren't many other options. And for those guest OSes for which VirtualBox drivers are not forthcoming, such as NextStep/OpenStep, it offers better support. That said, if you do not fall into these two use cases, VirtualBox is free, equally powerful, and offers a better interface on OS X and more consistence in interface between host OSes. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly use VMware Fusion for testing prebuilt virtual machines prior to conversion to VirtualBox, and for access to certain guest OSes for which VirtualBox driver support does not exist. ### 32. Great product, run windows applications right on your MAC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew S. | Senior System Administrator, Publishing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** You can run windows programs right on your Mac OSX desktop! I found a user saying to me they wished they could run Microsoft Dynamics on their macbook and when will microsoft release a client that works on Macs? I immediately answered them, you can do it right now with VMware Fusion. 2 hours later they had Fusion and Dynamics setup and were the happiest users i have ever seen. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** You need to have enough available resources on your mac to be able to run a windows environment at the same time, so make sure you dont get the lowest end mac, and add some additional RAM to it if you can. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** You won't regret it, its a must have for all mac owners. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are now able to use Mac's when we originally thought we were restricted to only using Windows OS! Choice is a beautiful thing! ### 33. Great software! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Loved the ease of the program. It's even easy for non IT folks to use. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** I had one issue when I did not do the updates. Hard lesson learned, always do the updates. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** I would highly reccomend the product. Very way to use even for non It folks! **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Going between windows and Mac worlds is a breeze with this program. ### 34. Review of VMWare Fusion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Nice interface. Easy to use. All of the features of VMware Desktop on a Mac. Easy to Install and Configure. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** The install package is a bit big for a laptop install. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fusion allows me to access other systems from my mac. It greatly enhances my ability to manage and administer a diverse environment. ### 35. VMware Fusion: VPN Usage **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Easy to use, clean interface, simple to use another OS onto your computer **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Install can be a bit complicated if you don't know what you're doing. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** VMware fusion can be a bit complicated to install, however once it is installed the possibilities are excellent. The ease of using another OS and getting your work done is easy and simple to use. I would recommend this to any user who needs to use another OS in their applications. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logging into the client network in order to see test environments. This has allowed us to develop prototypes that are accurate to the latest release. Excellent product to use for having multiple OS's on one computer. Our value has been when we can use this for iOS and WIndows platforms, as some consultants have one type of machine or the other. The client we work at is strictly PC based, and the support for iOS is not that plentiful. Giving iOS users the power to use Windows on their machines has enabled them to ### 36. VMware Fusion performance matches with dual booted OS performance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddartha L. | Student, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2015 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** The speed and tools offered in the package is pretty great and well integrated with MAC experience. 3D hardware speed while playing games in Virtual OS. Booting and shitting down of virtual OS id pretty fast comapred to others. The impact and load of VMware Fusion on underlying OS is less and doesnt drain the RAM much.. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** One of the most common dislike is bit hanging and speed which is pretty slow at some point of time. only one snapshot per virtual machine. Navigation from one OS to other is bit time consuming task. Some features in windows virtual installed OS faces problems which is not well supported. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** If you are looking for local quick acces with a greater speed and many more inbuilt features please headon to VMware Fusion. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the most advantage of using this is this saved our time and money in owning a new harware for a separate OS. We as a startup organization need to test our work with many OS's which would have been more economical if VMware Fusion whould have not been there. ### 37. VMware fusion 8.1.1 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Good tool for mac users to run windows as a VM as well as other operating systems. Virtual Machine library is an easy way to manage your VMs. VM library provides options to manipulate the settings of your VMs and shows the storage space taken up by each VM. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Most annoying this about Fusion is the frequency of the updates. Operationally it works fine, just a bit annoying to keep updating. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Good tool for Mac users to run windows seamlessly. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great for Mac users to run window! Allows me to solve mac deficiencies by switching to windows easily and continuing with the work. ### 38. VMWARE Fusion : essential on mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Flavio S. | Cyber Security, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** virtual machines are managed very well. I can easily create a virtual environment, often do tests with virtual machines, the snapshot feature is excellent, I can easily go back in time. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** integration with the Mac system can be improved. the Unity mode works well, but who uses parallals will find it different. the management of retinal display windows for the virtual machines is not optimal. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** is an essential software for Mac, users of the virtual machine windows must try it. the GUI is clear. They can handle a large number of virtual machines without problems. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** use this software because it is the only one able to handle DirectX 11. usefull to run the latest 3D graphics software. I use it on my mac when I have to use Windows applications. Some applications only run on Windows, this software is very important for my job and for my business. ### 39. VMware Fusion - proven visualization platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dawid K. | Senior Systems Administrator, Hospitality, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** - extreme ease of use - built in Fusion Learning Center with many video tutorials will get anyone running in no time - optimized for latest OS X - Apple Retina display support - Windows 10 support - latest version supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3 - Fusion even supports Mac gestures - I am loving Unity view where your Windows application shows within OS X **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** I did not find anything to dislike about VMware Fusion so far. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using VMware Fusion to run Windows OS in the environment that normally do not support Apple OS X. Many daily tasks requiring Windows OS I can now perform from my favorite MacBook Pro laptop. Need a console connectivity in OS X - no problem USB devices can be easily connected to virtual machine and work as native connection. ### 40. The #1 Virtual Machine Software! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Easy to setup Good Stability Performance is excellent Compatible with almost all OS **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Actually no, my favorite of all time If the comany can hold promotion event more often. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Absolutely! (I've already replied the verification mail with my company email address. Thanks) **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using a Macbook when developing our programs but every now and then I've got to switch to Windows and do some documentation. It's really painful to do a dual boot (bootcamp) and that's why I decided to use a VM. ### 41. Great tool cross-platform development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** 1) Ease of switching between the host and the vm environment. 2) Sharing files between the host and the vm. 3) VM is highly configurable. 4) Lot faster and getting better with each release. 5) Unity mode **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** 1) On Linux VM, Install tools require constant updates. 2) The software is expensive for a normal user. 3) Sometimes I gets tricky to expand the disk space **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** It's a great tool. It has gotten better and faster over the years. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it for cross-platform development on my mac. My servers run on linux and I use VM Ware fusion to do the development and testing on my mac OSX. ### 42. Easy and powerful virtualization solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonas F. | System- und Netzwerk Administrator, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** It's easy and really intuitive to use even for new users. I also appreciate that almost any application provides a suitable VMDK disk appliance which you can just click and run. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Complete fully headless / CLI mode without any graphical user interface is missing yet. Also it's a bit high priced for my use cases. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** Perhaps also give VirtualBox a try as the open source competitor. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used it to spin up multiple web servers and test my web application on them. ### 43. So easy and incredibly helpful! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zach C. | Associate System Administrator, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** It is very easy to setup a virtual machine with Fusion on a Mac, they have spent a lot of time making the process easy and intuitive. They also provide the option to install appliances and free operating systems with just a tap of the mouse! Fusion balances system resources well to allow you to utilize both your Mac system as well as any virtual machine you may be running. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** The only downside of Fusion is that it kills your battery pretty quickly and can cause your computer to heat up fast. However, I don't believe this behavior is only specific to Fusion as I have experienced the same symptoms with other software. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows the ability to run multiple operating systems on one physical machine which makes it very easy to troubleshoot issues and test changes across multiple platforms before rolling out changes. ### 44. Perfect software solution for IT and IS students and workers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin H. | Owner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2015 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Working with VMware Fusion has significantly increased my productivity with working in different operating systems. I really like the simple and clean shortcuts to jump to my different workspaces. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** There is really nothing that I dislike. Some of the compatibility issues are very minimal, and it seems that all the operating systems I want to install are quick options in Fusion. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problems I am solving by using VMware Fusion is that I have to use Linux for certain operational functions. I use Kali Linux to test my network's security and find out the flaws that I otherwise could not have found while on my mac. I have used Apple's Bootcamp to use both Linux and OSX, but that process was clunky and ended up being fatal for my computer as I accidentally wiped my entire OSX. Working with VMware completely eliminated the risk of installing other OSs on my computer. ### 45. Ease of use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jane L. | Owner, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Make using multiple platforms easier than having to load up Windows through Bootcamp **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** It take more resources than it should, and Windows doesn't see the proper amount of memory available. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not having to purchase additional equipment for running different operating systems ### 46. VMWare Fusion served its' purpose. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kort B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2015 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I loved how simple it was to jump back and forth between my desktop and my virtual machine. It was easy to work on my projects within my virtual machine, and then jump to my main desktop in order to conduct research. VMWare Fusion also made it simple to run Microsoft Office products in the much simpler Windows version (I run a Mac). I truly believe that, without VMWare Fusion, I would not have been able to pass some of the classes that I used it for. Learning how to use VMWare Fusion was simple, with their built-in tutorials and online support. I think that this allowed me to use the virtual machine software quickly and efficiently. I'm a student, so I don't have a ton of time to painstakingly learn a new software or version. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Sometimes the virtual machine, on VMWare Fusion, would run slowly. I think that this is attributed to processing power, but it was nonetheless frustrating. The User interface was also a bit shoddy when it came to booting up. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** VMWare Fusion is a clear frontrunner in the virtual machine industry. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used VMWare Fusion to work in Windows on my Mac. It allowed me to simply switch back and forth in order to use the business intelligence software, Qlikview (only available on Windows). It made it simple to jump back and forth between my Mac, where I would conduct research, and Windows, where I would run the actual program. I also plan to use VMWare Fusion in the future when the need for virtual machines becomes apparent. ### 47. VMware Fusion is a virtualization engine for professionals **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek R. | Sr Member Technical Staff, Consumer Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I use VMware Fusion to host a CentOS VM on my Macbook Pro. I performs very well. I love the ability to take snapshots, share folders, and the native integrations provided by VMware Tools. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** I always forget the keystroke required to release the mouse. Control + Cmd **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** If you a want a reliable and performant VM host for professional use, then VMware Fusion is for you. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I write software for CentOS machines but use a Macbook Pro. ### 48. Restricted uses on installing VM. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ying Kit L. | Tutor - Digital Marketing & IT Systems, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** I am a Mac user and installed VMware Fusion to test out different operating systems and I find it easy to use. Another fairly straightforward product to use. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** When installing an Operating System using the ISO file, there is a restricted interface when selecting types of Operating Systems installed, hence I removed the app from my PC! **Recommendations to others considering VMware Fusion:** I would recommend the latest version of VMware Fusion to all IT experts. It is a fairly straightforward app to use. I am Apple user and able to work just about fine with VMware Fusion. **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating Virtualisation for education purposes and trying out new app to enhance knowledge and skills. ### 49. Great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesse K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Use this for work daily. Works as it should and lets me work from home **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** There were issues with it where I would need to re-install the program for it to work again **What problems is VMware Fusion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can work remotely wherever I am and have an internet connection ### 50. VMWare Fusion virtualization software review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Fusion?** Efficient, easy to use and powerful virtualization software for OSX. Very good integration with virtual machines' systems (drag-and-drop support, shared folders, dynamic resolution based on window size, etc.). Also very good and relatively efficient integration with OSX system. **What do you dislike about VMware Fusion?** Sometimes the network configuration is not enough, especially when you try to replicate a certain network structure. But for most of the times it's more than enough. The snapshot system is OK but it could be better if more than one virtual machine could share a parent snapshot and if it was possible to run a certain snapshot more than once at a time. 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