Fusion Capabilities

With Fusion, you can create, open, and run VMware virtual machines, and use PC-specific hardware with a Mac.

With Fusion, you can perform the following tasks:

• Run x86 operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X Server, and others, on Mac OS X without rebooting.

• Run Windows and Linux applications on your Intel-based Mac.

• Run most Windows 3D applications that require DirectX 9 or DirectX 10 on your Mac.

• Import virtual machines created with Parallels Desktop, Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac, or virtual machines that use the OVF (Open Virtualization Format) standard.

• Migrate your physical Windows PC to a Fusion virtual machine with the integrated Migration Assistant.

• Access USB devices, such as video cameras and high-speed disks, from a virtual machine.

• Drag files between your Intel-based Mac OS X host machine and virtual machines running other x86 operating systems.

• Fusion works with VMware virtual machines created with different VMware products. For more information, see Virtual Machine Compatibility