Personally, I am excited to see the improvements in my day to day use of Windows 7 at work.
We have installed Windows 7 RC on a number of Macs from a first generation MacBook Air to a higher end MacBook Pro and Windows 7 RC is really responsive with the default VMware Fusion settings on all Macs we have tried. Today, Microsoft released a public release candidate of Windows 7. In fact, I have been running my day to day work life out of a Windows 7 Public Beta VM using Mirrored Folders and Shared Applications since the beta was released and it has been working really well with a couple of known caveats that we mentioned at the time.
Team Fusion released a Practical Guide to Windows 7 on Mac with VMware Fusion when the Windows 7 public beta was released earlier and lots of users took advantage of the opportunity to check out the forthcoming version of Windows. In Fusion Pro, you can use advanced virtual network adapter settings to limit the bandwidth, specify the acceptable packet loss percentage, and create network latency for incoming and outgoing data transfers for a virtual machine.There has been a lot of buzz flying around Windows 7 since its public beta release earlier this year.
You can add up to ten virtual network adapters to a virtual machine. You can assign a MAC address manually if you need to ensure that the same MAC address is always assigned to the virtual network adaptor for a virtual machine. Assign a MAC Address to a Virtual Machine Manually.You can connect the virtual network adapter for the virtual machine and set the type of networking to use. Multiple virtual machines configured with host-only networking on the same Mac are on the same network. When you use this type of network connection, the virtual machine is connected to your Mac’s operating system on a virtual private network, which normally is not visible outside your Mac. Likewise, any physical host or other virtual machine configured with bridged networking can use resources of that virtual machine. The virtual machine can use any of the services available on the network to which it is bridged, including file servers, printers, gateways, and so on. With one of these bridged networking options, the virtual machine appears as an additional computer on the same physical Ethernet network as your Mac. Using one of these options is often the easiest way to give your virtual machine access to a network. In the Bridged Networking list, you see various choices for bridging to one of the network interfaces on your Mac, including wireless and Ethernet.
The virtual machine obtains a private IP address from the VMware virtual DHCP server. The virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network. If you want to connect to the Internet or other TCP/IP network using your Mac dial-up networking connection and you are not able to give your virtual machine an IP address on the external network, choosing this option is often the easiest way to give the virtual machine access to that network. In Fusion, when you edit settings for a virtual network adapter, you can choose from several types of network connections. You can create a VPN that includes only the virtual machines on your host system.Fusion supports IPv6 in bridged networking.
You can configure a virtual machine to bridge to a specific network interface on the host system.A virtual machine can use NAT to share the IP address of your host system.Configure and implement Fusion virtual networking components on your virtual machine to connect to other virtual machines in your networking environment.įusion supports only Ethernet-based networking, but provides several options for connecting to networks.