VMware Fusion 11.0 Release Notes

VMware Fusion 11 | 24 SEP 2018 | Build 10120384

What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

• About VMware Fusion
• System Requirements
• What's New
• Known Issues

About VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion® 11 is the easiest, fastest, and most reliable way to run Windows and other x86 based operating systems on a Mac without rebooting.

For more information, see the broader VMware Fusion documentation.

System Requirements

• Hardware
  All Macs launched in 2011 or later are supported except for the following:
  • 2012 Mac Pro Quad Core using the Intel® Xeon® W3565 Processor.
  The following are also supported:
  • 2010 Mac Pro Six Core, Eight Core, and Twelve Core.
• Software
  macOS 10.12 Sierra minimum required

What's New

The following support is new in Fusion 11:

• New guest operating system support
  • Windows 10 1803
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • macOS 10.14
  • Fedora 28
  • RHEL 7.5
  • CentOS 7.5
  • Debian 9.5
  • OpenSuse Leap 15.0
  • FreeBSD 11.2
  • ESXi 6.7

• Advanced graphics 
  DirectX 10.1 support is added for Fusion 11. DirectX 10.1 is an incremental update of DirectX 10.0. It provides higher visual quality through the support of multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA).  DirectX 10.1 also supports Shader Model 4.1 and Cubemap Array.
  • Hardware requirements for DirectX 10.1:
    • MacBook (early 2015 or later)
    • MacBook Air (mid 2012 or later)
    • MacBook Pro (mid 2012 or later)
    • Mac Mini (late 2012 or later)
    • iMac (late 2012 or later)
    • Mac Pro (late 2013 and later)
    Metal renderer should be supported by the macOS host
  • Software requirements:
    • macOS 10.13.0 and later

• VMware hardware version 16
  The maximum amount of graphics memory is now bumped up to 3072 MB.

• Hosts and Clusters view when you connect to vCenter (Fusion 11 Pro only)
  Fusion 11 adds a new Hosts and Clusters view when you connect to a vCenter Server from Fusion. You can easily toggle between VM view and Hosts and Clusters view.

• vSphere 6.7 support
  You can now connect to a vSphere 6.7 vCenter Server or ESXi 6.7 host directly. You can also import VCSA 6.7 within Fusion 11.

• New Applications menu
  Fusion 11 provides a brand-new design Applications menu to do more than simply launching applications from within the guest:
  • Creation of new virtual machines
  • Virtual machine power operations
  • Switching from different views
  • Taking snapshots
  • Launching virtual machine settings

• REST API for networking operations
  Fusion REST API is extended to support the following networking operations
  • create vmnet
  • MAC address to IP binding
  • get MAC address

• Customizable Touch Bar support
  Fusion 11 supports Touch Bar to be customizable in the following scenarios:
  • Library window
  • Virtual machine window

• SSH login to a Linux virtual machine
  You can now access a Linux virtual machine with SSH provided by Fusion 11. Fusion 11 can remember the user name and password, so virtual machine access is as easy as a mouse click.

• User experience improvements
  • Virtual machine title bar - With the new virtual machine toolbar, you can now navigate the virtual-machine path and quickly view the full path in a text file or terminal window on the Mac host.
  • New default virtual machine location - The default virtual machine folder for new installations of Fusion 11 is your home directory/Virtual Machines.

• Performance improvements for ​virtual NVMe storage

Known Issues

• On a Coffee Lake, Skylake, or Kaby Lake Mac machine with High Sierra 10.13 installed, Windows 10 virtual machines display glitches when the display resolution is greater than 4096 pixels

  On a Coffee Lake, Skylake, or Kaby Lake Mac machine, if the host is installed with macOS High Sierra 10.13 and is using an Intel graphics card, the display of a running Windows 10 virtual machine starts to function improperly when the display resolution exceeds 4096 pixels. This issue does not occur when any of the following conditions apply to the Mac machine.

  • Uses a non-Intel graphics card
  • Is installed with a macOS version prior to macOS High Sierra 10.13
  • Is not a Coffee Lake, Skylake, or Kaby Lake model

  Workaround: Upgrade to latest macOS 10.14.

• Content in the clipboard of a virtual machine is automatically copied to the host tmp folder when you right-click in the host

  The issue occurs on macOS 10.14 hosts only. In the guest, after you copy one or more files, when you right-click the mouse in the host, the copied files are saved to the /tmp/VMwareDnD folder of the host.

   

  Workaround: None.