VMWare Fusion 1.1 beta hits RC status

Sure, it's not like you had scads of free time today, but in case you're hankering for 164 MB of virtualization goodness, be it known that VMWare Fusion Beta 1.1 reached release candidate status yesterday, and you can download the new beta (along with a 30-day trial key, if you're not already a Fusion user) from VMWare's site.

I've been testing the 1.1 beta for a while now, and although it's a bit slower than 1.0 (probably due to remaining debug code) it seems to be working very well. If you're moving to Leopard today, 1.1 is what you want — 1.0 isn't compatible with 10.5 despite enhancements for Leopard listed in 1.1, some commenters report no problems with Leopard and 1.0, YMMV. For those on the Parallels side, recent patches to both 2.5 and 3.0 should keep things running smoothly under Leopard.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.