I found it to be even slower than virtualbox which I have no idea how this is possible. Tested on a late 2015 5k iMac top specced and a late 2015 MacBook top specced both running OSX 10.11 at the time.
I will re-test the latest version with MacOS 10.12.
Ie, VirtualBox and VMware were slow to the point I'd consider them unusable (I'm latency sensitive, eg, I consider Eclipse to the be same and other people think it's fine). Veertu made me actually test in Edge again.
Did you still have VMware or VirtualBox drivers installed? IIRC VMware doesn't actually remove itself when you uninstall it, you have to remove the kmods yourself.
Entire team got fired, but yes still being maintained from a new team of outsourced devs.
Unfortunately, their annual reports don't breakout revenue by product: http://ir.vmware.com/overview/financial-information/annual-r...
The company probably feels they can do just as well (at a lower cost) with outsourced devs.
Works for me and many others here, so there's more going on with your setup than just Fusion and Sierra not getting along.
Here's a quote from the product line marketing manager from VMware Fusion on this topic [0]
<quote>
We're really sorry about this situation, but rest assured it's our #1 bug right now.
It's technically both our and Apple's bug. The default behaviour of something we always called/did was changed in a later near-final build of 10.12, and that introduced this bug.
We and Apple are working together but like always we can't disclose timelines.
Please note that we are absolutely working on resolving this issue and issuing an update as soon as we can.
</quote>
e.g. Apple could sell macOS licenses to run in a VM on non-Apple hardware, but they don't. To run macOS per the EULA, it can only be done on Apple hardware.
I'm not really expecting any awesome new features, just bug fixes mostly.
As I move (mostly) back to Linux on the desktop, I'd really like to use VMware but I can't rationalize $249 for a product that is quite possible "end of life" (for all practical purposes).
I mounted the latest CentOS 7 ISO image, completely standard and md5 summed, it boots to install and I have no keyboard or mouse control OR the VM is immediately frozen.
Seemed to boot faster than Fusion which is an improvement from the last time I tried.
I'll next try a shudder Windows 10 shudder VM.
Performance of the install seems a LOT better than last time I tried.
Will report back.
I'm now doing an update of CentOS and will install the latest stable kernel from elrepo kernel-ml and fio, then I'll benchmark disk IO (I'm running a PCIe NVMe SSD that averages 1600-2000MB/s for sequential writes/reads so this should be interesting)
Points of note thus far:
- Unsure if EFI is supported?
- Seems to be no way to create templates
- Cannot import a single file OVF image
- Cannot clone a VM
- Cannot snapshot a VM
- While importing a VM, you can't access the main window to start / edit other VMs UPDATE: scratch that - you can - but it's slow as anything even with none of my computers resources maxed out, it appears to be single threaded and perhaps some locking is occuring on the GUI.
- DISCARD / TRIM SSD support works perfectly as expected, unlike in VMware.
- After installing the guest addons which was very quick as they must be quite light weight, all drivers worked perfectly and performance seems good in general (for windows anyway), have not tested 3D yet.
- No native resolution scaling when resizing the VM window even after installing tools
_NOTE:_ I will turn this thread into a blog post and put it up on https://smcleod.net when I have time, perhaps this weekend.
I can't complain about Parallels' performance. I was satisfied with it in that regard.
1- https://www.tekrevue.com/2015-vm-benchmarks-parallels-11-vs-...
In fact, it ate my entire CPU while it was running, even when the VM OS (Windows 10) settled down after startup. and was apparently running no CPU-intensive processes.
It also crashed twice in the space of an hour, bringing down the entire VM, necessitating a restart.
Not touching Veertu again for a long time.