For a free app, VMware Fusion Player is worth exploring if you're a Mac user who is dipping their toes into virtualization for the first time. If you have a new Apple Silicon Mac you may be a little disappointed by the limitations, but things are bound to improve in time. In addition to Windows, Fusion Player can be used to run Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and other operating systems plus macOS guest installs (but only on Intel models). There's no support for hardware acceleration on Apple Silicon hosts, which means you won't be doing much 3D accelerated gaming in Windows. It is the most downloaded emulator for the Nintendo (NES) system and people believe that it will provide you with the best experience of playing Nintendo (NES) games on your device. It includes many of the features you'd see in paid apps like Parallels Desktop like file sharing between the two operating systems, different view modes, plus DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.3 support (on Intel models at least).Īpple Silicon support is there but still rudimentary.
Like Workstation, VMware Fusion Player has a generous free offering including the ability to create large VMs with 32 virtual CPU cores and 128GB of RAM.
