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VMWARE FUSION Getting Started
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What You Can Do with VMware Fusion
With VMware Fusion, Intel-based Mac users can:
 Run your favorite Windows and Linux applications on an Intel-based
Mac–With VMware Fusion, you can run virtual machines with a wide range
of Windows and Linux operating systems, so you can run your favorite
applications side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting.
 Create virtual machines – VMware Fusion provides a New Virtual Machine
Assistant to guide you through the process of creating a virtual machine.
 Run multiple operating systems while protecting the integrity of your
Mac – VMware Fusion lets you safely run virtual machines isolated from the
Mac by making use of the hardware-level security and fault isolation of
virtualization solutions.
 Evaluate and use prebuilt applications easily – With VMware Fusion,
you can download and safely run prebuilt applications designed to solve
specific problems in virtual machines that are available from the growing
library of virtual appliances. See the Virtual Appliance Marketplace at
http://vam.vmware.com/.
The Virtual Appliance Marketplace includes virtual machines from various
software vendors, as well as virtual machines that are preconfigured with
popular open source software. With VMware Fusion you can download
and try a completely configured Linux virtual machine without having to
be a Linux expert or you can try preconfigured business appliances with
applications from leading software vendors, including Oracle, Red Hat,
Novell, BEA, SpikeSource, IBM, and MySQL.