

WINDOWS VMWARE FUSION DRIVER
Patches have been upstreamed to address a variety of kernel-related issues, as well as enhancements to the Mesa SVGA graphics driver to bring 3D hardware acceleration and OpenGL 4.3 + GLES 3.1 support to Linux VMs with Mesa 22.1.1 and later. “Working with the communities of various operating systems and open source open-source projects such as Mesa, Linux, as well as our own open-vm-tools, we’ve made many enhancements to the Linux on Apple silicon experience. Of course, vTPM device can be added to any VM, but that VM must have either Full or Fast VM encryption enabled.”


With this release, we have enhanced our Virtual TPM module by incorporating ‘Fast Encryption’, key auto-gen and key storage via Keychain with a TPM 2.0 virtual device profile that is compatible with Windows 11 system requirements. “In order to support Windows 11 requirements, a Trusted Platform Module is required. Many new enhancements and capabilities came together to bring Windows 11 to the Mac desktop with Fusion, and while they were designed with Windows 11 in mind, the tools can be used for other VMs as well.” Lower overhead and up to 2X faster resume time for a suspended virtual machine. Support for 4-way SMP to maximize performance on the latest iMac and Mac Pro. Key highlights include: Performance, Finely Tuned. While it is a little early, and things on Apple silicon don’t always behave like we’re used to on Intel, we’re thrilled to be able to share the work we’ve been doing to prepare support for Windows 11 virtual machines on Fusion, for both Intel and Apple silicon Macs. VMware Fusion 3 includes more than 50 new features and enhancements, delivering a better-than-ever Windows on Mac experience. The latest VMware Fusion release also brings with it improved the next support on M1 Macs as well as 3D Graphics HW Acceleration and OpenGL 4.3 in Linux VMs (Requires Linux 5.19+ & Mesa 22.1.3+), fast encryption and universal binary support as well as VMtools installation for Windows 11 GOS on M1.
