Does VMWare Fusion include free upgrades as they are released?

[mshan]

Would all 1.x update releases be free?

And is 1.1 now totally stable with Leopard?

 

[Kaido]

I don't know, but Parallels stability seems to have gone down for me. I upgraded to Leopard and Parallels 3.0 from Tiger and Parallels 2.0...it's faster, but it's also buggy. Oye!

 

[loup garou]

Yes, 1.1 is a free upgrade from 1.0. I'd assume all point releases will follow that model, but who says they have to release a 1.2? 😉

I am running 1.1 rc1 on Leopard and it is perfectly stable. This reminds me, I should install the 1.1 release.

 

[Nothinman]

That's how it worked for Workstation back when I owned a copy so I would assume it's still true.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I don't know, but Parallels stability seems to have gone down for me. I upgraded to Leopard and Parallels 3.0 from Tiger and Parallels 2.0...it's faster, but it's also buggy. Oye!

The last time I used Parallels Desktop, it caused a kernel panic and the VM was hosed (would no longer open w/ Parallels Desktop or Explorer). This was the latest stable build on Mac OS X 10.4.10.

VMware Workstation has been solid back to version 1.0 and Fusion seems to be more of the same. However, I couldn't successfully install the SVGA driver into an old Windows NT4 VM so it's restricted to 640x480 screen res. This might have something to do with the legacy VM being archaic, and I had to "upgrade the virtual hardware" twice. But I've never had that specific problem with VMware for Linux or Windows.

 

[GhettoFob]

All 1.x versions should be free updates. You will have to pay for an upgrade when they release Fusion 2.x.