Description
VMware Fusion 12 Player
VMware Fusion provides a secure and high-performance desktop sandbox for running Windows or other operating systems on your Mac—without restarting. Use a Fusion Player business license to separate your home and business environments.
With a paid Fusion Player license, you can use this product for commercial purposes in accordance with the Product Licensing Guide.
Main features
System requirements
Material
Software
Comparison of versions
| Generalities | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
|---|---|---|
| Create new VMs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create large VMs (32 CPUs, 128 GB RAM) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Converting a PC into a virtual machine | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mass supply | ✓ | ✓ |
| Host/Guest Integration | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Host/Guest File Sharing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Published/simulated files | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-Click SSH to Linux VM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Running VMs in different display modes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unified view (Windows guest users only) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chart | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| 3D graphics with support for DX11 and OpenGL 4.1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Large graphics memory: 8 GB | ✓ | ✓ |
| Device support | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Supports 4K, 5K and Retina displays | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for various virtual devices | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for USB smart card readers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for USB 3.1 devices | ✓ | ✓ |
| Assistance for assistive devices (under section 508) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multilingual keyboard support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Virtual TPM (Trusted Platform Module) device | ✓ | ✓ |
| NVMe virtual device | ✓ | ✓ |
| Safety features | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Microsoft virtualization-based security support (guest) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Virtual TPM (Trusted Platform Module) – vTPM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for the launch of UEFI | ✓ | ✓ |
| UEFI/Secure Boot support | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPU sandbox rendering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snapshots | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create/manage encrypted VMs | ✓ | ✗ |
| Host operating systems | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Windows 10 Host | ✗ | ✗ |
| Linux: Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, openSUSE | ✗ | ✗ |
| macOS 10.16 and above | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guest operating systems | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Supports over 200 operating systems (Linux, older versions of Windows, BSD) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows 10 Guest | ✓ | ✓ |
| macOS Guests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Specific features for Mac hosts | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Support for macOS 10.16 hosts | ✓ | ✓ |
| macOS Guest Support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows applications in the Mac dock | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-Click SSH to Linux VM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Metallic graphics engine | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import/Boot Camp Startup | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application Menu | ✓ | ✓ |
| Specific functions for Windows hosts | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Windows 10 Host | ✗ | ✗ |
| DX12 Rendering Engine | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hyper-V mode support (Device Guard, WSL) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Virtual machine sharing (desktop server) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Specific functions for Linux hosts | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Volcano rendering engine | ✗ | ✗ |
| Host support: Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, openSUSE | ✗ | ✗ |
| Extended functions | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Command-line operation: vmrun and VIX | ✓ | ✓ |
| Easy deployment of the vCenter server appliance | ✓ | ✓ |
| REST API | ✓ | ✓ |
| “Nautilus container engine” | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adapting virtual networks (NAT, renaming networks) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Simulation of virtual networks (packet loss, latency, bandwidth) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Connecting to vSphere/ESXi Server | ✓ | ✗ |
| Controlling the power of remote vSphere hosts | ✓ | ✗ |
| Create linked clones | ✓ | ✗ |
| Create complete clones | ✓ | ✗ |
| VM encryption | ✓ | ✗ |
| Licenses | Fusion Pro | Fusion Player |
| Free for personal use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Commercial license | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trial license | ✓ | ✗ |





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