This release also extends support for v11 customers until December 2020.Īdded to that we’re also running a 20% off sale right now! We wanted to make sure that folks who are still using older releases can get support for macOS Catalina without having to pay full price for the upgrade.

This release comes as a free upgrade to existing Fusion 11 users, with Fusion 8.5 and v10 customers being still eligible for discount upgrade pricing. Still on Fusion 10 or 8.5? Upgrade here with 20% off!! It’s with great pleasure that we announce the immediate availability of VMware Fusion 11.5!

^ a b 'VMware Official Web Site: System Requirements'.

^ 'macOS Catalina is compatible with these computers'.

^ a b 'VMware Fusion 12 Release Notes'.

'VMware Fusion update lets users virtualize Leopard, Snow Leopard'. 'How to Run 32-Bit Apps in macOS Catalina'.

'WWDC: VMware brings virtual machines to Mac OS X'.

^ 'Change the Preferred Virtualization Engine'.

^ 'VMware Fusion 12.2.1 Release Notes'.

Optional: nVidia GeForce 8600M, ATI Radeon HD 2600 or better graphics for Windows Aero support.

Operating system installation media for virtual machines.

macOS Catalina or later for VMware Fusion 12, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan or later for VMware Fusion 11, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later for VMware Fusion 8.

5 GB free disk space for each virtual machine (10 GB or more recommended).

Most Apple Macs launched in 2012 or later for VMware Fusion 12, most Macs launched in 2011 or later for VMware Fusion 11, any x86-64 capable Intel Mac for VMware Fusion 8.

VMware Fusion can run any of hundreds of operating systems provided by the user, including many older versions of macOS, which gives users a way to run older Mac application software that can no longer be run under the current version of macOS, such as 32-bit apps and Rosetta ( PowerPC) apps. VMware Fusion 1.0 was released on August 6, 2007, exactly one year after being announced. Much of the underlying technology in VMware Fusion is inherited from other VMware products, such as VMware Workstation, allowing VMware Fusion to offer features such as 64-bit and SMP support. VMware Fusion uses Intel VT present in the Intel Core microarchitecture platform. VMware Fusion, which uses a combination of paravirtualization and hardware virtualization made possible by the Mac transition to Intel processors in 2006, marked VMware's first entry into Macintosh-based x86 virtualization.

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