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What’s new in VMware Fusion 3.0.1

VMware Fusion 3I’m a very heavy user of VMware Fusion nowadays, and depend on it for running MS Office applications (2010 Beta) on a daily basis. Since I rarely close Fusion, it was only today that I was alerted of the availability of the first update since 3.0.

A move from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 is only a bugfix release, and not something I’d typically get excited about, but a number of the Unity fixes are annoyances I run into every day. In addition, this version offers faster resume times for virtual machines, and a new native 64-bit networking subsystem.

Here’s the list of Unity View improvements:

  • “Always On” Applications menu defaults to the active virtual machine, and if more than one virtual machine is running, the menu defaults to the one that has focus
  • Fixes a problem in which the “Always On” Application menu was not populated in some cases
  • Improves the Aero-in-Unity experience with better interactive performance and easier readability of window titles
  • Improves Unity view interactive performance for 32-bit Windows applications running on 64-bit Windows operating systems
  • Ability to dismiss system tray menus in Unity view with only one click
  • Small mouse wheel scroll increments work correctly in Unity view
  • Fixes keyboard focus issues in Unity view when multiple windows are opened and closed
  • Fixes a problem in which Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, and some other applications would drop out of Unity view, causing the Waiting for Unity window to appear
  • Fixes a problem in which VMware Fusion would fail when processing very large icons from Windows applications
  • Fixes a problem in which VMware Fusion could not create Windows applications in the dock for those with really long application names

The full feature list is here: VMware Fusion 3 Release Notes.

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