Almost three months after revealing Fusion 2.0 Beta 1, VMware announced the availability of Beta 2, which adds the Unity 2.0 suite of Mac-Windows integration features, new ways to protect and manage the virtual machines with multiple snapshots, and a garage fool of tools for technical professionals.

The beta 2 is available as free download for Beta 1 customers, and comes with a lot of new features and improvements that offer virtualization solutions for users who want to run the Windows operating system on their Macs.

The VMware team promises “the next level of Mac-Windows integration” compared to Beta 1, which enables users to share applications between Windows and Mac, set web, email and other links to launch the Mac or Windows browser, and even e-mail clients.

The Fusion team says about Fusion 2.0 that “it provides ever better ways to manage and control Windows on Mac,” while the Beta 2 now allows users to take and manage multiple snapshots for each of the virtual machines, while keeping checkpoints before installing new software to prevent potential issues.

Beta 2 also comes with more usability and Mac-friendly features, such as CPU utilization reductions, Mac OS X Leopard Quick Look integration, Apple Help integration, and better activity monitors in the status bar.

The VMware Fusion dock icon shows what is happening with the virtual machine, disk, network and other activities. VMware Fusion 2.0 provides not only accelerated 3D graphics, but also high performance 2D video into the virtual world.

With the addition of Mac OS X Leopard Server, Fusion 2.o now promises support for all major server OSs, whether 32 or 64-bit, while the Beta 2 adds up to four virtual CPUs to the virtual machines and control virtual machine from the Command Line using VMrun.