An issue that I’ve been dealing with for a while has been that Oracle’s Java 7 did not run natively in VMware Fusion. VMware had created a patch for OS X VMs, but it was only designed to be run in OS X VMs running 10.8.x.
As of today, that issue has now been resolved. With the release of Java 7 Update 40, Java 7 now runs natively in VMware Fusion OS X VMs running 10.7.5 and 10.8.4. Thanks to the OpenJDK team, Oracle and VMware for their work in getting this fixed.
