VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion

74 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
VMware Fusion	Score7.8 out of 10	N/A	Vmware Fusion is a virtual user session software built to run Windows applications on Macintosh to run any Windows applications.	N/A

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VMware Fusion
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	VMware Fusion
Considered Both Products	VMware by Broadcom Matteo Bisi DevSecOps Engineer in Information Technology at SIGHUP (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose VMware Fusion Oracle virtualbox has not reason to exist anymore, considering VMware Fusion pro is free for personal and not business use. I think VMware Fusion is better in every aspect. Parallels it's a great alternative, especially if you need only windows. If you need also linux Fusion is … Incentivized Helpful? Shion Song Art Director & Web Developer in Marketing at shion.ca (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware Fusion As mentioned previously, perpetual licensing was the #1 reason. The interface is also cleaner, simpler, and less bloat. Parallels also seem to run a bit slower. Fusion was also more stable and significantly faster in both raw performance and graphics compared to Virtualbox. … Incentivized Helpful? Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer in Engineering at Bluefire Productions (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware Fusion GitHub and Bitbucket are both used by our company for code sharing and are much easier to use for collaborative source code versioning. We internally use GitHub and have some clients who use Bitbucket. In some cases, we have software projects that are very hard to configure, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion I've heard of other/competitive software but frankly once I tried VMware, I never looked back. There is absolutely nothing that I need that this product does not deliver. It's fast, effective and seems to be extremely durable and reliable. My only concern (and minor) might have … Incentivized Helpful? Stefan Semo Director of IT Infrastructure, Security & Compliance and Customer Service in Information Technology at Success Academy Charter Schools (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose VMware Fusion VMWare Fusion is easier to deploy and manage than Parallels and also has a much simpler and less expensive licensing system. For us these are win-win. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Chandler Founder in Professional Services at 360intentionality, LLC (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware Fusion I have only used VMware Fusion, but I selected it compared to its competitors because of the reviews I read and the demos I saw. My decision was based on these factors: (1) reliability - this app is very stable; (2) simultaneous environments - some competitors require you to … Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Pinsker Owner in Information Technology at Colorado Computer Care (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware Fusion As Hyper-V is Windows specific product, and primarily designed for Windows Server, it is difficult to compare Fusion and Hyper-V as they cater to different customer needs. Comparing Fusion to Parallels is a bit more complicated as they are extremely similar products. Briefly, … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP Security Architect in Information Technology at Securicon, LLC (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware Fusion VM Fusion is a leader. It has more functionality and capability for workstation virtualization application. Its unity view and resource management of virtual guests is far superior to any other Mac workstation virtualization applications on the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion If you only need to run a single Windows VM for a handful of applications and do not need to do testing or run multiple operating systems, Parallels Desktop may be the better choice, especially for less technical end users. Parallels is a bit more user friendly. If you need … Incentivized Helpful? Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at Clayton County Public Schools (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose VMware Fusion VMware Fusion works much better for us because of the migration capabilities. We use VMware vSphere and the migration/conversion is seamless. Some of the other virtualization application do not covert or migrate VMs onto other platforms as easily. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Timms IT Specialist in Information Technology at iQor (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose VMware Fusion I personally have used just about every brand of virtualization software from Virtualbox for Windows, Hyper-v for Windows, KVM for Linux, and VMWare for Windows. Personally my favorite is KVM for Linux because it is lightweight and very fast, but as far as virtual machines go, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion As far as I know, VMWare is the only solution that really did what we used it for. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Shannon Director of Technology in Information Technology at Packaging & Distribution Resources (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose VMware Fusion VMware fusion is very similar to Parallels but is lower priced, so its my preferred solution for running Windows on a macintosh computer. Vmware is also made by a much more well known company with a large support staff in place, so getting help with vmware fusion is always … Incentivized Helpful? Zach Cooper Site Reliability Engineer in Information Technology at AdvancedMD (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose VMware Fusion Fusion seems to run better than Parallels. It also is much more user friendly and intuitive to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion I actually think it's almost exactly the same as VirtualBox. VirtualBox I used for hosting a Linux distribution, and I think that there are inherently more problems to configuring a Linux distribution than there are to a Windows virtual machine, so mostly my issues were due to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion VMware Fusion stacks up against VirtualBox. I selected VMware Fusion for its easy to use UI and clear steps available and documentation available online. It is also a popular tool, so to get an exposure to this tool, I opted to learn about it by myself. Also, there are many … Incentivized Helpful? Fatima Tipu Enterprise Support Manager in Information Technology at Atlantic Media (Publishing, 501-1000 employees) Chose VMware Fusion Virtual Box is a free option, so WMware Fusion is more robust and I'd say more reliable. It's also more appropriate for handling more complex VM setups. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion Speed and reliability. Easier to use Frequent updates Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Duff Macintosh Service Desk Technician III in Information Technology at Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware Fusion All of this changes from year to year, too. Parallels and VMware both require that you buy an annual license every year to get updates that pack in performance gains and feature improvements. These annual updates are great in theory, but they’re not cheap, and they come every … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	VMware Fusion
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (20 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)