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The VMware Fusion and Workstation team is excited to announce the release of our 20H2 Technology Previewfeaturing the first drop of our DirectX 11 support!

Quick links to the bits:

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Benchmark ran with Radeon 5500M with 4GB of video ram assigned to the VM, Window was 2560×1440 on a 4K external display

• Provides support for DirectX 11 (Direct3D v11) and OpenGL 4.1 graphics capabilities in the guest operating systems! Obviously DX11 is Windows guest only, but OpenGL 4.1 applies to Linux guests as well.
• Hundreds of new games and applications can now run in Fusion and Workstation!

Increased Hardware Maximums: MONSTER VMS

• Both Fusion and Workstation Tech Preview 20H2 support up to 32 processors and up to 128GB of RAM per virtual machine, as well as 4GB of shared graphics memory

Sandboxed Graphics Processes

• We’ve dramatically enhanced virtual machine security by using a special non-root “sandbox” process for rendering 3d hardware assisted graphics. This further isolates the Guest VM operations from the Host, significantly reducing the viability of privilege escalation to the host.

Improved External GPU support

• Host rendering engine now takes full advantage of eGPU capabilities
  • Special thanks to the community for the feedback on this!

To get started with DX11, VMware Tools needs to be upgraded, and the Virtual Hardware Compatibility version must be set to v18. Existing VMs can be upgraded by adjusting the virtual hardware compatibility while the VM is powered off. After power-on, you can then upgrade VMware tools as you normally would. With new VMs you may need to manually set the virtual hardware version to v18 before installing, so double check.

Committed to our users, we’ve been working hard on this feature for many years, and so we welcome your feedback!

Let us know your experience! Does your favourite game work? Glitchy? Looks perfect? Help us improve by sharing in our Fusion Tech Preview Community Forums or our Workstation Tech Preview Community Forum

VMware Fusion Pro 12.1.0 (build 17195230)

VMware Fusion gives Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. Fusion is simple enough for home users and powerful enough for IT professionals, developers and businesses.
Run Nearly Any Operating System on a Mac
Running Windows on Mac is only the beginning. VMware Fusion lets you choose from hundreds of supported operating systems, from lesser-known Linux distributions to the latest Windows 10 release.
Connect to VMware vSphere

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Securely connect with vSphere, ESXi and Workstation servers to launch, control and manage both virtual machines (VMs) and physical hosts. Thanks to the common VMware platform, VMs can be easily transferred from the vSphere data center to the Mac desktop and then run in Fusion.

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Develop and Test for Any Platform

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Fusion makes it simple to test nearly any OS and app on a Mac. Build and test apps in a sandbox while securely sharing local source files and folders. Fusion Pro now includes a RESTful API to integrate with modern development tools like Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, and others to fit the power of VMware into today’s Agile and DevOps-oriented production pipelines.
Design and Demo Complex Solutions
With the ability to run an entire virtual cloud stack on a single Mac, solution architects can demonstrate their entire software solution in real time, with safe rollback points to return to known configurations. Fully express the story of your software journey by running all of its components on a single notebook to show the wor

What's New:

Version 12.0.0:
Note: Now requires OS X 10.15 or later

Vmware Fusion For Mac 10.11.6

Free Product for Personal Non-Commercial Use - Fusion Player (previously Fusion Standard) is now free for personal non-commercial use Support macOS 11 Big Sur

• Run macOS 11 Big Sur as a host operating system
• Run macOS 11 Big Sur as a virtual machine

DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 Support

• Support has been added for DirectX 11 (DX11) and OpenGL 4.1 in the guest operating system
• Hardware requirements for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1:
  • MacPro 2013 and later
  • iMac 27-inch 2014 and later
  • MacBook Pro 13-inch 2015 and later
  • MacBook Pro 15-inch 2015 with dual graphics and later
  • MacBook Air 2015 and later
  • MacBook 2015 and later
  • iMac 21-inch 2015 and later
  • iMac Pro 2017 and later
  • MacMini 2018 and later
• Software requirements for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1:
  • Guest OS: Windows 7 or higher, or Linux with vmwgfx

External GPU support

• Fusion provides support for external GPU when an external GPU is connected to the host. Choose the Prefer External GPU option from the Fusion UI

Sandboxed Graphics

• Virtual machine security is enhanced by removing graphics render from vmx and running it as a separate sandbox process

New Guest Operating Systems Support

• RHEL 8.2
• Debian 10.5
• Fedora 32
• CentOS 8.2
• SLE 15 SP2
• FreeBSD 11.4
• ESXi 7.0

USB 3.1 Controller Support

• The virtual machine's virtual XHCI controller is changed from USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 to support 10 Gbps

Larger Scale VM

• 32 virtual CPUs
• 128 GB virtual memory
• Note: Running virtual machines with 32 vCPUs requires that your host and guest operating systems both support 32 logical processors
• 8 GB virtual graphics memory

Create VM from APFS Recovery Partition (Now limited to macOS 10.15 host)
Performance Improvements

• Improved file transfer speeds (Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste, HGFS)
• Improved virtual machine shutdown time
• Improved container performance

vSphere 7.0 SupportIn Fusion 12 you can perform the following:

• Connect to vSphere 7.0
• Upload a local virtual machine to vSphere 7.0
• Download a remote virtual machine running on vSphere 7.0 to the local desktop

Login to Container Image Registry

• Ability to login to a container image registry with the vctl login command has been added

Kubernetes Support

• Fusion 12 now supports KIND kubernetes clusters

Improved Accessibility Support

• Accessibility improvements have been added so Fusion is compliant with WCAG 2.1 criteria

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• Title: VMware Fusion Pro 12.1.0 (build 17195230)
• Developer: VMware, Inc.
• Compatibility: macOS 10.15 or later, 64-bit processor
• Language: English
• Includes: Serial
• Size: 623.36 MB
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