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Project Nautilus is the name ascribed to an ongoing transformation of Fusion and Workstation to support OCI Containers and more.
Nautilus is the sum of two main parts: The 'engine' and backend runtime support services, and the front-end CLI. Users interact with Nautilus using the 'vctl' command to start services, and perform operations with containers. Our backend is based on containerd, so if your application can communicate with the containerd daemon, we hope it would work with ours as well.
vctl is the command line interface that drives Fusion to push, pull, and natively run docker and oci-compliant contaniner images and kubernetes clusters on developer workstations.
'vctl' is included with Fusion 11.5.5 and the 20H2 Tech Preview of VMware Fusion. The 'vctl' command line tool is added to $PATH by default each time Fusion starts, and does not need tobe installed seperately.
Fusion includes a built-in 30 day trial license.
You can download it directly from here:
You can download the beta from here: https://bit.ly/getnautilus
Yes. Fusion dynamically loads kernel extensions when it launches and unloads them when it quits, so it will always load the right backend services for the version you're trying to start.
No. You should quit VMware Fusion non-tech preview version before launching the Tech Preview build.
Fusion 20H2 Tech Preview requires macOS 10.14 as a minimum host OS.
Fusion 11.5.5 system requirements are located here
You can check out our Getting Started guide here