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Now available in a non-beta form, VMware Fusion is ready to compete with Parallels.

Release notes for build 51348 mention the following advances:

Features of VMware Fusion:

* You can use 32-bit and 64-bit guest operating systems in VMware Fusion virtual machines. VMware Fusion supports Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems in virtual machines.
* Your virtual machines can have multiple virtual processors, taking advantage of the Intel Core Duo chips in today’s newest Intel Macs.
* VMware Fusion supports high-speed USB 2.0 for a huge range of devices. Even devices that do not have drivers for Mac OS X will work in a virtual machine.
* Virtual machines seamlessly integrate with your Mac: you can cut and paste text between your Mac and your virtual machines, drag and drop files, and create shared folders on your computer so you can easily share files and folders.
* Unity view displays your Windows virtual machine applications directly on your Mac desktop. The virtual machine window is hidden, and your virtual machine applications are displayed in the Mac dock, so you can use them just as you use your native Mac applications. See Using Unity View.
* You can burn CDs or DVDs to your Mac’s rewritable optical drive from within your virtual machine.

What’s New in Release Candidate 1

VMware Fusion is now feature complete and driving for general availability prior to the end of August. This release of VMware Fusion includes the following new features and feature improvements:

* Unity Improvements: the seamless way to run Windows applications on your Mac:
o Drag and Drop: Drag and drop files from Finder windows onto Windows applications or Windows Explorer windows.
o Launch Windows applications from the VMware Fusion dock icon: Control-click or right-click the VMware Fusion dock icon, select your virtual machine and get access to the Launch Application window and the complete Programs menu for that virtual machine.
o Unity support extended to more versions of Windows: This release provides experimental support for Unity on Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit), and Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit).
o Improvements to Launch Applications window and Application menu: Windows program icons now appear in the Launch Applications window and the Applications menu. Note: Beta 4 and Beta 4.1 users need to manually delete the hidden Unity Windows Applications folder for each Unity Virtual Machine. See Using Unity View.
o Numerous bugs involving keyboard issues, display redrawing, minimizing to the dock, and window ordering have also been fixed in this release.
o New hidden option to always show the Windows task bar in Unity. To enable this option, see Using Unity View.

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