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VMware FusionSoftware

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Who uses, recommends or left VMware Fusion, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

5 people

Mitchell Hashimoto
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
loved

I use Vagrant with VMware Fusion, because Fusion is just better than VirtualBox. Fact.

An interview in "The Setup", the usesthis.com series that asks people what hardware and software they use to get their work done. Answers are in their own words.

2013-07-02·usesthis.com ↗

Eric Meyer
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
uses

Also, Windows XP in a number of VMware Fusion instances - one for each major IE release plus an extra "baseline" instance in case I have to build up a new one from scratch.

His written "Uses This" interview, describing a deliberately un-upgraded setup.

2011-03-08·usesthis.com ↗

Dan Cederholm
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
uses

GitX for committing version controlled updates to Dribbble, and VMware Fusion for testing designs in Windows.

His Uses This interview, on a minimalist Mac web-design setup.

2010-01-07·usesthis.com ↗

Steven Frank
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld.
uses

I'll pop open VMWare Fusion if I need to test something on our site with Internet Explorer.

His Uses This interview, on the three Macs and the small set of apps he kept installed.

2009-01-17·usesthis.com ↗

Who disliked it

Bennett Foddy
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
disliked

For testing things in windows I use VMWare Fusion, which is just as hacky and broken as Parallels.

His Uses This interview, a long and mostly exasperated tour of his hardware and software.

2012-08-10·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.