You may have caught wind of the news that Windows 10 is here, and for many folks who want to install it in a virtual machine, VMware Fusion is the obvious choice. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and must admit so far I’m quite pleased with it. I’ve been even playing with Cortana in the background with my VM just minimized while I work away on the Mac. The ‘Hey Cortana’ feature works flawlessly with Fusion as far as I can test.

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I even asked her to sing me a song while I was working away and while her singing voice isn’t bad at all, her choice of Danny Boy is a little odd if you ask me. I’ve been using the lately, but Fusion 7 was working just fine with all the Insider Preview of Windows 10 if you just choose Windows 8.1 as the Guest OS type. Either way, it’s a really nice OS and it runs at incredibly well in Fusion. I’m using a MacBook Pro mid-2012 model with 16GB of RAM overall and I give it 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM, and maybe that’s even overkill for what I use it for. I’d say it feels leaner and more responsive overall than every Microsoft OS since XP and I feel like they finally got rid of all the unnecessary cruft and bloat that was holding them back.

VMWare Fusion can be used to install the other OS in a new partition or in a disc image. The hosted Operating System will work as usual. VMWare Fusion is a very good choice. It can take screenshots, resume applications, deal with USB, DVD units, bluetooth adapters. Home > VMTN > VMware Fusion® (for Mac) > Discussions 1 Reply Latest reply on Oct 24, 2017 12:17 PM by wila. VMWare Fusion 10 - VMWare Tools greyed out.

There is however that a number users are hitting tho which currently affects most hypervisors. Tho I haven’t heard of any users with HyperV having this problem, I can only presume there are no HyperV users interested in upgrading to Windows 10.

Draw your own conclusions, but it is what it is. Luckily, there’s actually a REALLY EASY workaround. Rather than use the upgrade method within the VM, download the.ISO and mount it to Fusion to perform the upgrade. Straight from the source!

Microsoft makes the so you can burn to disk or use as a VM. Rather than a single link, they have this process to get the right version, and actually works really well. (From Safari on my Mac, no less). No funky windows.exe thing to use to download and create the.iso with, this is a full ISO from Microsoft.com with Win10Englishx64.iso as the filename. Fusion 7 + Windows 8.1 + Windows10.iso = Upgrade! First things first as always before ding major upgrades, TAKE A SNAPSHOT!

This way you make sure to have a safe roll back point in case something goes wrong, you don’t like it, or it breaks all your other Windows apps or something. After the installation assistant greeted me, things started moving along just fine. The installation begins! The installation proceeds basically unattended, which is nice.

Took about 10 minutes on my MacBook Pro (mid-2012). Upgrading here we go! Once the installation finished, I ran through the personalization walkthrough which I highly recommend to turn off all the ‘send everything I type to Microsoft’ features yikes. So that’s it! You can use that same.iso file from Microsoft to install multiple copies as needed, or just use the clone feature of Fusion Pro to save yourself the hassle. ## Update I had comments muted for spamming reasons, but I tweaked it and it should be only legit folks sorry I missed all your comments I’ll try and respond, thanks everyone for reading!

Nice article – I have official Windows 8.1 license and when I go through process of using windows 10.iso to create image in Fusion 7.1.2, the process asks for license key – so I give it my good 8.1 key and that fails. I still was able to install full Windows 10 inside Fusion, but unactivated. How do you get around this? I tried waiting for upgrade within 8.1 image and Microsoft now comes back saying “VMWare SVGA 3D. The display manufacturer hasn’t made your display compatible with Windows 10” Thanks for any leads you may have. I loaded using the.iso file, but while running under Fusion to convert from Windows 7 to 10. Had to restart several times during the installation, which is awkward, because if I wasn’t hovering over the MacBook Pro, it rebooted into the MacOS.

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It looks as if it is working in Fusion EXCEPT the screen size is fixed at one small size. When I resize the PC screen in the window, the window gets larger, but not the Windows window–it is not really resizing within the Fusion window. I’ve tried changing the PC’s settings (and those of VMWare Fusion (7.1.2) like turning off the 3D graphics acceleration as suggested) to no avail. The PC window stretches, but at the same aspect ratio. I cannot get it to widen UNLESS I change the resolution inside the PC. Then I can up the resolution, but the lovely elastic revision of screen sizing through the Fusion interface is gone. There’s an option in the Settings Display pane of the VM labeled ‘Use full resolution on Retina display’.

Try checking or unchecking it (while the VM is running is okay) see if that helps. Windows 10 looks great when you have it checked when you’re on a retina or 4K/5K display because it scales the UI using vector images instead of bitmaps like how Windows 7 did it. With Windows 7 it looks small because of the actual dots per inch that are in use if it’s enabled, as an example.

Windows 10 knows how to run on high DPI displays, so you can enable this option when you’re on one, but inversely it might look weird if it’s enabled and you’re on a standard resolution display. You can always toggle the option while the VM is running.

Hello Michael, Thank you for shedding lights on the resolution issue. I have a 27″ 5k, running Fusion 8. I have set enough RAM for Windows. I first installed Windows 7 Pro, then today I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro. Wind 10 seems to run ok except the display resolution is stuck in 1600 x 1200 which is the highest I can go.

I adjusted text size and icon is to smallest I can go, but they are still too big. I went to Virtual Machine - Settings - Display, then checked and Unchecked “Use full resolution for Retina display” a few times (each time sign out and sign in). Unfortunately it does not help, it’s still 1600 x 1200. “Accelerate 3D Graphics” check box and Shared graphics memory 2048 MB” are dimmed. Do you see if I can do anything to make the resolution higher? I very much appreciate your help.