VMware Fusion: run all of your Windows and Linux software on Mac without a problem
February 21, 2019
VMware Fusion: run all of your Windows and Linux software on Mac without a problem
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware Fusion
VMware Fusion is being used as a virtual machine monitor to allow Mac users to test how things work on Windows machines. It is used mostly by developers and quality analysts, since most of them are using Mac, and the core business is web development, so we need to use VMware Fusion to test how things run on Window's browsers, like Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.
- Allows users to install a lot of operating systems, like the latest Windows 10 release.
- It's possible to integrate with Chef and Vagrant.
- The price is too expensive to do things that you can do with other products for free.
- It has a lot of lag when testing a Windows 10 environment, it was supposed to be faster.
- With unity view mode, less experienced MacOS users have a simple mode to run their Windows software without having a different context.
- Since it allows you to run Window's software on a Mac device, it allows users to have only one computer to use all the desired software.
To be fair, with other products, if pricing was a problem for the organization, I would choose VirtualBox, because it works very well on Mac environment and it has most of the features that VMware Fusion has. However, I personally like the way I can run my Microsoft Windows application without losing my MacOS context.