Virtualization giant VMware announced last week that it was releasing an update to its Mac virtualization product, Fusion, which is still currently in Beta.

The latest update, Fusion 1.0 Beta 4.1, re-enables support for USB devices for those users that own a Santa Rosa-based Macbook Pro or those that have updated to Mac OS X 10.4.10. According to VMware, Apple made changes to the USB manager which required changes in Fusion to maintain USB support.

VMware also improved experimental support for running VMware Fusion on Mac OS X Leopard hosts. They corrected various issues with installation, launch and networking.

Fusion Beta 4 introduced other new features, with Unity being perhaps the biggest update in the product. This feature lets a user run Windows XP applications from the Mac desktop, much like Parallels' Coherence.

You can download VMware Fusion 1.0 Beta 4.1, here.

Posted by David Marshall on June 23, 2007 04:44 PM