Create and control policies around your virtual machines and deliver applications to end-users in a Fusion Pro restricted virtual machine container.
Ensure corporate compliance by restricting access to virtual machine settings like drag-and-drop and cut-and-paste, disabling shared folders, and restricting access to USB devices. Restricted virtual machines are encrypted and password-protected to ensure that unauthorized users are unable to tamper with the corporate virtual machines settings, data, or the virtual machine itself.
With a marked 3x performance increase for suspend and resume functions when working with encrypted volumes, you can restore secure Windows environments faster than ever. Add and remove virtual IPv4 or IPv6 networks and create custom virtual networking configurations, ideal for testing and demonstration environments without impacting the Mac's network configuration. With updated networking controls and compatibility with the VMware ecosystem, Fusion Pro users can recreate complex cloud architectures right on the Mac to validate design before implementation.
Fusion Pro speaks to developers with powerful integrations from the most innovative software technologies. Easily push workloads into the cloud from Fusion Pro with vCloud Air integration or deploy a VMware Project Photon virtual machine to run containers from Docker, rkt or Garden, ensuring maximum compatibility with the VMware ecosystem. Use modern tools such as Chef, Hashicorp Vagrant or docker-machine to automate virtual machine and container deployment, or build Universal apps for Windows 10 devices without ever leaving the Mac.
The Snapshot feature preserves the state of a virtual machine so users can return to it at any time, allowing users to upgrade to new operating systems like Windows 10 without any risk. The Clone feature makes duplicating Fusion Pro virtual machines easy.
Full or Linked clones allow you to make unlimited copies of a virtual machine from an installation and configuration baseline. Linked clones are the fastest, easiest, and most efficient way to duplicate complex setups for testing and custom demos. Buying and managing Fusion Pro licenses is easy. Purchase licenses in volume and configure them so your end users are productive using Windows on a Mac from their first power-on.
Use the My VMware licensing portal to easily manage all your license keys and support entitlements. Merge license keys together, break them apart or downgrade them to an earlier release, as you see fit. For added control users can manually specify the GPU to use, or let Fusion Pro automatically decide, providing you the best performance while least impacting your battery life.
With advanced resolution handling and display topology detection, you can trust that when your MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro is connected to an external display that Windows will look as crisp as can be. Enhancements for applications such as Skype or Microsoft Lync enable Macs equipped with a FaceTime or iSight camera to conduct high-quality video conferences within a Windows virtual machine.
Fusion Pro also enables fast file transfer with USB 3. IT organizations today can take advantage of the BYOD trend by providing internal users with approved corporate Windows desktops as secure, policy-based virtual machines. Fusion Pro can further reduce the cost of supporting Windows desktops with single virtual machine mode, which limits user access to the Virtual Machine library, eliminates the ability to create new virtual machines, and reduces menu options.
If you are running an IT department and need mass deployment options, this is the best option on the Mac. Evaluate new operating systems and test software applications, patches or reference architectures in an isolated and safe environment that is also compatible with VMware vSphere. Whether developing software, testing new operating systems or running powerful 3D applications like AutoCad or SolidWorks, Fusion Pro can do it all. Fusion Pro takes virtualization on the Mac to the next level with professional features designed to help users save precious time and effort on a variety of tasks.
Leverage the cloud to share virtual machines with anyone in your organization for tests, analysis or demonstrations. Fusion Pro can also connect to, create and run virtual machines hosted on VMware vSphere. Download virtual machines from VMware vSphere and turn them into local Fusion Pro virtual machines or upload local virtual machines to vSphere directly from Fusion Pro.
Fusion Pro gives technical professionals powerful control over how to set up and interact with virtual machines. Choose from a wide variety of options when installing, protecting, connecting, sharing and viewing virtual machines.
You can even create virtual machines that are encrypted, require a change of password or expire at a predefined date and time. Leverage the Snapshot feature to preserve the state of a virtual machine so you can return to it at any time. With the ability to assign 64GB of memory, 16 virtual processors and 2GB of graphics memory per virtual machine, Fusion Pro delivers leading edge features for running Windows on a Mac.
And, with innovative tools such as linked clones, virtual network editor with IPv6 support, and connectivity to vSphere or vCloud Air clouds, Fusion Pro is the perfect tool for advanced users on the Mac.
VMware Fusion is designed for every kind of Mac user. IT pros, developers and businesses choose VMware Fusion Pro for its broad OS support, rock-solid stability and advanced features simply not available in a non-virtualized environment. Submit support requests either online or via phone; responses are targeted within one business day. Individual incident support is conveniently sold in 1, 3 or 5 incident packs.
With a minimum quantity of 10 VMware Fusion Pro licenses, VMware Basic Support provides access to our global support centers, 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, including unlimited support requests and subscription services for 1 or 3 year periods. With a minimum quantity of 10 VMware Fusion Pro licenses, VMware Production Support provides access to our global support centers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for Severity 1 issues, including unlimited support requests and subscription services for 1 or 3 year periods.
Complimentary support starts when your VMware Fusion license is registered. Hit Continue. The configuration of the virtual machine is now complete. Click Customize settings to define the path to store VM files before you click the Finish button. Select a folder to store your VM files. Note : In VMware Workstation, you can select a folder to store VM configuration files and virtual disk files at different steps of the new VM wizard with the ability to use different folders to store these files.
However, in VMware Fusion, all VM files and virtual disks are automatically stored in one selected folder. VM settings are displayed in a separate window. Select MB of memory and 2 processor cores for a VM to run Windows 10 this configuration may vary. You can expand advanced options to enable nested virtualization and other useful features for your VM. Close the window after finishing configuration. Once you have finished configuring a virtual machine, including virtual hardware, start the VM, boot from the Windows 10 installation ISO image selected automatically with the current configuration, and install Windows 10 as a guest operating system on the VM.
Click the Play button to start a virtual machine. These errors are displayed due to the security configuration of macOS. Issues related to macOS security settings require manual configuration. Click the Apple button , and click System Preferences. Click the lock icon to unlock settings similarly as you did multiple times before.
Once settings become active, select the checkbox near VMware Fusion to allow full disk access for this virtualization application. If VMware Fusion is running now, a notification message is displayed:. Now the VM should start correctly without displaying any errors. Installation of Windows 10 as a guest operating system on VMware Fusion is similar to the installation of Windows 10 on a physical machine. We disconnect the machine from the internet until finishing the installation of Windows Select a language to install, time and currency format, and keyboard or input method.
We use English United States in this example. Click Next at each step to continue. Activate Windows. If you have bought the Windows 10 license, you can enter the product key now. Select the Operating system you want to install. Select the needed Windows 10 edition.
I select Windows 10 Pro in my case. Due to the European anti-competitive practices, Microsoft released special Windows 10 N editions for Europe marked with the N letter.
Windows 10 N and KN editions are provided without media technologies. You can download and install these multimedia components from the Microsoft website manually a special Media Feature Pack is provided after installing Windows 10 on your computer or virtual machine. Applicable notices and license terms. Read the license agreement and select the I accept the license terms checkbox. Which type of installation do you want? Select Custom: Install Windows only advanced to perform a clean installation.
Where do you want to install Windows? Now you should create a partition table with the configuration that is suitable for you. You can see the 60 GB empty virtual hard disk or another size virtual disk if you configured that in VM settings.
Click New to create a new partition and enter the partition size, then click Apply. Windows automatically creates the first 50 MB service partition prior to your custom partition. It is especially useful when you use the MBR partition table with a limit of four partitions, but you need to use the same amount for your work without wasting one as the service partition.
However, you cannot simply select the 50 MB partition and click Delete. In order to delete the 50 MB partition, first, delete your custom partition the size of my partition to install Windows 10 is The name of my custom partition is Drive 0 Partition 2.
We extend the first partition to the maximum possible size. Click Apply to save settings. Now we have one 60 GB partition on our virtual disk to install Windows Later you can create new virtual disks for a VM in VMware Fusion, create partitions, and format them in a guest operating system after finishing Windows 10 installation. Select the partition where Windows 10 must be installed, and hit Next.
Wait until the installer copies all the needed files and installs Windows. Is this the right keyboard layout? Select the needed keyboard layout. I use the US keyboard layout for my Windows 10 installation.
We can configure the internet connection and download needed updates later after completing the installation. Windows 10 persistently asks you to enable an internet connection. However, we are not going to turn on the internet until finishing installing the VMware guest operating system.
Click Continue with limited setup. Enter a name for your local user account on the Windows machine, for example, user1. We disconnected the internet and are not using the Microsoft account.
Create a super memorable password. Enter a strong password and remember the password. It is recommended that you use a password that contains at least 8 characters, including uppercase, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters.
Confirm your password. Enter your password once again. Then Windows 10 asks you to create three security questions for the user account. Choose privacy settings for your device. Deselect all settings that collect your data and send the data to Microsoft. Let Cortana help you get things done. Select Not now to disable Cortana. Windows 10 is now installed as the VMware guest operating system.
