VMWare Fusion Update Bundled with Free Year of McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009

VMWare has updated their venerable Fusion virtualization software for Mac and Ubuntu Linux and now includes a free year of the ever present McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 program as a free gift. One can also download the update without the antivirus software.

The VMWare Fusion update is a maintenance release which includes importing Windows virtual machines from both Parallels Desktop 4.0 and Parallels Server for Mac, support for mounting unencrypted .dmg file format as a CD/DVD disk image, in addition to.iso files, supports Mac OS X 10.5.6 as a host operating system, experimental support for Mac OS X Server 10.5.6 as a guest operating system, support for Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest operating system, including features such as VMware Tools with prebuilt kernel modules, Easy Install, and Unity.

The update also provides performance improvements when browsing mirrored folders and shared folders in Windows virtual machines, supports display of Windows applications in Unity view as 48 pixel x 48 pixel icons, resolves issues with “Optimize for Mac OS application performance” preference option for Mac OS X 10.5.5 and later versions, and contains further bug fixes.