It took some doing with a series of Proof-of-concept and Betas until we eventually shipped Fusion 1.0 in August of 2007.Įssentially, it was a “port” of VMware Workstation which runs on Windows and Linux but redesigned to address the “switcher” use case of coming to the Mac platform from Windows. Q: When did VMWare first release a virtual machine environment for the Mac system? When was VMWare Fusion first released?įusion was originally put together once Apple moved to Intel x86 chips in 2005. To learn more about how VMWare is handling the migration of Fusion to the M1 chip, I reached out to Fusion Product Line Marketing Manager Michael Roy. It’s invaluable.īut the migration of Apple products to the new Apple-produced M1 series chip after years of being based on the Intel architecture has produced some challenges. I use it to run different operating systems on my Mac system and currently have Windows 10, Windows 11, and Ubuntu Linux as virtual machines I can run within VMWare Fusion for testing and documentation purposes.
VMWare has a long history of producing excellent virtual machine software that has let thousands of developers test their programs across many operating systems and versions without the need for lots of computers.