Upgrades for existing customers are reduced to $99, and both upgrades and new licenses ($199) now give users the ability to use their license on up to 3 personal devices running either Fusion Pro for Mac, Workstation Pro for Windows, or Workstation Pro for Linux. Yes, your Fusion 12 Pro key will unlock Workstation 16 Pro on Windows or Linux. Fusion 12 Pro now supports individual use on up to 3 devices which now include Windows or Linux PCs running Workstation Pro. On top of this, there is also a new pricing model for Fusion PRO. So if you’re a home user who switched to Mac but want to use Windows for things like DX11 games or other personal apps, you can do so, for free, with a Personal Use License. Fusion Player has the same features as Fusion 11.5.x ‘standard’ and more. Fusion 12 Player replaces Fusion 11.5 ‘standard’, and follows the same pricing and licensing model as Workstation Player, meaning that it is both free for Personal Use, but requires a license for Commercial Use. VMware has decided to change the licensing model for Fusion and it is like this:įusion 12 Player (free for personal use license) and Fusion 12 PRO. So what's all the noise about here? Well, the biggest change apart from support for the upcoming BigSur macOS and several more features is the fact that for the first time Fusion is FREE! I will focus on the macOS side of the story here. Parallels 16 was released a few days ago and today we got a new version from a leading virtualization company VMWare.Īlong side Fusion (virtualization platform for macOS), we also got Workstation 12, version for Windows. With each year VMWare and Parallels release new versions of their virtualization platforms. Considering that my connection is so slow this will take some time for all 68GB to download. Upgraded my Win10 LTSC VM from compatibility level 16 to the latest 18 and started to install Doom (2016). UPDATE: (23:15 CEST) - Upgrade from 11.5 to v12 was fine with zero problems. On the other hand, Fusion runs just fine with no problems at all.

The game detects the GPU as integraded card and it will not run, so no joy.

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