I’ve been granted a sneak peak of VMWare Fusion v.next. While I’m not sure why I was selected, I sure do appreciate it. There are rules to follow, and I don’t think I’m breaking any by telling you that the next version looks good. I didn’t do anything special. Just installed and ran, then opened my Windows 7 RC machine. Worked fine; perhaps a little better since the usual mangled boot screen wasn’t nearly as bad. In the current released Fusion, Win 7 boot screen gets a little weird and plays disco-flashy or something for a few seconds before going to the login screen. Some else saw it and declared my MBP was possessed. Anyway, the rules prevent me from saying too much specific but I can say it looks good so far. With Windows 7 due around October 22 of this year, looks like VMWare Fusion will be ready for it.
I will be using it run Win7, and do some development work on it. I’ve also booted Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 10, and WinXP. All ran fine.
It just sunk in as I wrote this that I am running Visual Studio 2010 Beta on Windows 7 Release Candidate in VMWare Fusion Beta.
-j