Vmware tools os x yosemite
You can't compare VMWare and Parallels with Apple. Now, Parallels is offering an upgrade from 9 to 10 for $50, while the Fusion competitive upgrade to its version 6 from Parallels 9 amounts to about the same price (a 17% discount from its regular price of $60 standalone. And I found that I liked the recent versions of Parallels better than Fusion, anyway. In my earlier posts I said that 2-3 years ago the Parallels competitive upgrade from Fusion cost me $40, which was $20-30 cheaper than the Fusion upgrade from 5 to 6 or something like that.
Well, to tone down the rhetoric a bit here, let's look at the history and the numbers. I wonder what the difference in price will be in upgrading from Parallels 9 to 10 or doing a competitive upgrade from Parallels to Fusion, which is now about $50. I also tend to like Parallels better than Fusion. I used to have Fusion and switched to Parallels a few years ago when it was cheaper to do a competitive upgrade from Fusion to Parallels than it was to upgrade to the next version of Fusion at that time. I don't know when the official release date is for Yosemite, after which I won't need the beta Yosemite VM any longer, and presumably Parallels will have its act in order.
Now I've got 30 days to decide whether to switch from Parallels to Fusion. This was a lot easier than going through the process of working with the kernel mentioned above in Parallels.
I did try to reconvert the VM to a Parallels VM, but that failed.
Vmware tools os x yosemite install#
I DLed the 30 day free trial version of Fusion 6.0, converted my Parallels OSX Mavericks VM to a Fusion Mavericks VM, put the Install Yosemite Beta app on the now-Fusion Maverick VM, double clicked it, and in about 45 minutes or so it converted the Mavericks VM into a working Yosemite Beta VM in Fusion, and with the VMWare Tools installed it works like a charm. Here is one answer that should be a wakeup call to Parallels: