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VMWare’s Macintosh virtualization product, Fusion has hit version 1.1. In this version you get improved speed, native support for Leopard, Experimental DirectX 9 support, and a new tool that lets you import VM’s.

New with 1.1, however, also comes a new beta application called Importer. Importer does what so many of us have been waiting for, and what Parallels has done for a long, long time: it offers an easy-to-use Mac program that lets you convert other virtual machines over to a Fusion VM. Previous to this, anyone who wanted to convert, for example, a Parallels VM over to Fusion had to go through a very long, convoluted, horrible process with a Windows-only app from VMware that didn’t work all the time (it failed for me several times, personally). This used to be a limiting factor for me to use Fusion regularly, since I wasn’t about to go through the whole song and dance of a new Windows install, but now I’m dying to try out Importer. Importer supports drag-and-drop capabilities with Parallels 2.5 or 3.0 virtual machines.

You can download version 1.1 directly from VMWare’s site.

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