Download Free VMware Fusion 3.1.3 Update for Mac OS X

VMware Fusion 3.1.3, a maintenance update that resolves some known issues and includes improved functionality for Mac users, is now available as a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 3.x users, the developers announced today.

A powerful virtualization solution, VMware Fusion allows Mac users to run multiple operating systems on their machines, simultaneously.

Using ‘virtual machines,’ VMware Fusion even lets OSes running side by side communicate with each other, such as copying one file on OS X and pasting it in the Windows VM.

VMware is eager to highlight a few important changes in the free VMware Fusion 3.1.3 release including support for Windows 7 SP1 32-bit & 64-bit (Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1), support for Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 32-bit & 64-bit, improved reliability accessing shared files on the Mac, fixed slow first page loading in Internet Explorer 8, and improved handling of smartphones including the Nokia N8.

That’s not all though. According to the developers, they’ve resolved a ton of other issues with the software.

Albeit less noteworthy, we’re highlighting those that should matter the most to our Mac-using fanbase.

· A Mac OS X Server 10.6.x virtual machine is unable to access IDE hard disks and CD/DVD drives after the guest is updated to 10.6.5 or newer. If the boot volume is on an IDE hard disk, the guest will fail to boot.

· Previously, when you created a Mac OS X virtual machine in Fusion, the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file contained an absolute path to the virtual machine disk (.vmdk) file. This setting prevented you from copying the virtual machine because the copy pointed to the .vmdk file for the original virtual machine. Now, the .vmx file contains a relative path to the .vmdk file and you can copy Mac OS X virtual machines.

As it is the case with every incremental release of Fusion, all the features from prior releases have been incorporated as well.

Download VMware Fusion for Mac OS X