Oct 28
Vmware Fusion 3.0 upgrade experience
Quick post: yesterday I upgraded from Vmware Fusion 2 on my Mac to 3.0.
I also suffered the widely reported problem where the site could not find my previously registered copy of Fusion 2 and so would not give me the upgrade pricing option. Some broken web pages, and some hours later, I was unexpectedly presented with a page to actually pay for the thing. A little confusing because I wasn’t sure how I had arrived there. Still, I lived the dream and punched in my digits. I let it download overnight.
This morning I checked the instructions for upgrading an existing copy of Fusion in the “Getting Started” manual. No sweat: I just installed the new version and everything was OK.
Fired up my Windows 7 RC VM. First start seemed typically slow, with the scrambled graphics and resizing windows I’m used to seeing when starting Windows 7 in Fusion. Second start of Windows 7 was very fast.
Overall: slightly irritated about the site problems yesterday, but happy that the upgrade was smooth and – to a first approximation – does not seem to have broken anything.