VMware Fusion Pro 12.1.0 (build 17163065)

VMware Fusion gives Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. Fusion is simple enough for home users and powerful enough for IT professionals, developers and businesses.

Run Nearly Any Operating System on a Mac
Running Windows on Mac is only the beginning. VMware Fusion lets you choose from hundreds of supported operating systems, from lesser-known Linux distributions to the latest Windows 10 release.

Connect to VMware vSphere
Securely connect with vSphere, ESXi and Workstation servers to launch, control and manage both virtual machines (VMs) and physical hosts. Thanks to the common VMware platform, VMs can be easily transferred from the vSphere data center to the Mac desktop and then run in Fusion.

Develop and Test for Any Platform
Fusion makes it simple to test nearly any OS and app on a Mac. Build and test apps in a sandbox while securely sharing local source files and folders. Fusion Pro now includes a RESTful API to integrate with modern development tools like Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, and others to fit the power of VMware into today’s Agile and DevOps-oriented production pipelines.

Design and Demo Complex Solutions
With the ability to run an entire virtual cloud stack on a single Mac, solution architects can demonstrate their entire software solution in real time, with safe rollback points to return to known configurations. Fully express the story of your software journey by running all of its components on a single notebook to show the wor

What’s New:

Version 12.0.0:
Note: Now requires OS X 10.15 or later
Free Product for Personal Non-Commercial Use – Fusion Player (previously Fusion Standard) is now free for personal non-commercial use Support macOS 11 Big Sur

• Run macOS 11 Big Sur as a host operating system
• Run macOS 11 Big Sur as a virtual machine

DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 Support

• Support has been added for DirectX 11 (DX11) and OpenGL 4.1 in the guest operating system
• Hardware requirements for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1:
  • MacPro 2013 and later
  • iMac 27-inch 2014 and later
  • MacBook Pro 13-inch 2015 and later
  • MacBook Pro 15-inch 2015 with dual graphics and later
  • MacBook Air 2015 and later
  • MacBook 2015 and later
  • iMac 21-inch 2015 and later
  • iMac Pro 2017 and later
  • MacMini 2018 and later
• Software requirements for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1:
  • Guest OS: Windows 7 or higher, or Linux with vmwgfx

External GPU support

• Fusion provides support for external GPU when an external GPU is connected to the host. Choose the Prefer External GPU option from the Fusion UI

Sandboxed Graphics

• Virtual machine security is enhanced by removing graphics render from vmx and running it as a separate sandbox process

New Guest Operating Systems Support

• RHEL 8.2
• Debian 10.5
• Fedora 32
• CentOS 8.2
• SLE 15 SP2
• FreeBSD 11.4
• ESXi 7.0

USB 3.1 Controller Support

• The virtual machine’s virtual XHCI controller is changed from USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 to support 10 Gbps

Larger Scale VM

• 32 virtual CPUs
• 128 GB virtual memory
• Note: Running virtual machines with 32 vCPUs requires that your host and guest operating systems both support 32 logical processors
• 8 GB virtual graphics memory

Create VM from APFS Recovery Partition (Now limited to macOS 10.15 host)
Performance Improvements

• Improved file transfer speeds (Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste, HGFS)
• Improved virtual machine shutdown time
• Improved container performance

vSphere 7.0 SupportIn Fusion 12 you can perform the following:

• Connect to vSphere 7.0
• Upload a local virtual machine to vSphere 7.0
• Download a remote virtual machine running on vSphere 7.0 to the local desktop

Login to Container Image Registry

• Ability to login to a container image registry with the vctl login command has been added

Kubernetes Support

• Fusion 12 now supports KIND kubernetes clusters

Improved Accessibility Support

• Accessibility improvements have been added so Fusion is compliant with WCAG 2.1 criteria

Compatibility: macOS 10.15 or later, 64-bit processor
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