After being jealous about my girlfriend’s Fusion install on her cute MacOS X, I’m almost happy with VMWare 6.5 beta 1. As you can see on this screenshot, it for example played tricks on each Window that I touched. In the gnome-panel, they all start blinking and don’t stop blinking any more.
Moving Microsoft’s Word window to my second screen was not a very good idea because after I did that, I was unable to move the window any longer. The Window also got a piece of guest-OS desktop-background at the left (of about 150 pixels) and was itself shifted to the right within the window that Unity seems to create for it in X11.
Moving the notepad window over Microsoft’s Word window made Microsoft’s word window stop being redrawn until I activated it. I had to “paint” the Window or changing a piece of text or selecting text to get it back in shape.
Given that Tinne’s Fusion’s Unity feature does actually work perfect, I guess I’m still going to be quite jealous for a few more months. Until, I guess, people like ChipX86 fix all this kind of problems in the beta.
But, it sure looks promising. Cool. etc etc. Sadly is the beta version being ran in debugging mode. Therefore my machine becomes dog slow as soon as I start using VMWare. I hope I can still downgrade to my old VMWare Workstation, because the VMWare tools upgrade has been installing quite a lot of new drivers in the guest Windows OS. Lucky me I have made myself a snapshot before all this.
Proposing to make a snapshot is perhaps something VMWare Workstation could ask its users if it notices that a beta is being started? Just an idea, of course.