VMware Fusion 4 is out today!

Hello world!  Desktop virtualization just got a whole lot better with the release of VMware Fusion 4.

I’ve been using internal builds of Fusion 4 for months, which is one of the perks of being a VMware employee1.  It’s been awesome to watch it come together.  I’ve especially liked the performance improvements.  As a 64-bit Cocoa app, it got a fair performance boost over Fusion 3 just from that.  The development team has also done some performance tuning that’s turned it up a couple of notches too.

Personally, I’ve got a Win7 VM on my work machine right now.  I keep on meaning to burn through a bunch of disk space and install a bunch of other OSes2, and with the Win8 preview out there, I’ll probably check that one out too.

Fusion 4 is $50 through the end of the year, and I hear that there are coupon codes out there (as of this writing, I see that there’s one in the comments of the blog post I linked above) to knock it down even further.  Go forth and purchase!

  1. At least, if you’re an inveterate dogfooder like I am. I’m such an early adopter that I always jump on board dogfood the second it’s offered.
  2. Back in the Fusion 2 days, I had a Microsoft Bob VM for the entertainment value.