You just had to tell Fusion you were running Windows 7 or OS X Lion, respectively. The big selling point is support for Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion VMs, but Fusion 4 also supported these OSes as VMs. Note that both VMware and Parallels offer enterprise editions that provide the kind of policy management of Windows VMs that IT often imposes on actual Windows PCs.įirst, there's very little useful in the new version - certainly nothing that justifies the $50 upgrade cost.
New Fusion licenses also run $50, while new Parallels licenses cost $80. Both cost $50 for an upgrade from a recent version. Both Fusion 5 and Parallels Desktop 8 extend the host support to OS X Mountain Lion and the client VM support to Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion. Those products are VMware's Fusion and Parallels Desktop, which let you run Windows, OS X, Linux, and Chrome OS virtual machines on OS X hosts. 26 but available for download by developers and Microsoft partners) come updates to two products that bring the two OSes together.
About a month after Apple released OS X Mountain Lion and two weeks after Microsoft finalized Windows 8 (not shipping until Oct. It's a rare year that sees updates to both OS X and Windows, but 2012 marks such an occasion.
