#VMWARE FUSION OR PARALLELS FOR MAC#
#VMWARE FUSION OR PARALLELS WINDOWS#

#VMWARE FUSION OR PARALLELS FOR MAC#

Paralells Desktop 3 for Mac beats Parallels 2.2 for Windows/Linux (both suck) hands down. Hopefully, competition between the two will benfit us in the long run. Last time I visited the forum, there were still issues with C2D-based Macs. I'm glad you have no issues with PD, especially running on a C2D MBP.

I'd like a nicer way to run headless than Force Quiting the GUI ( don't even think that's possible under PD ), for example. This is on a 2Ghz CoreDuo MacBook with 2GB RAM.įusion isn't perfect. Under Parallels, I used to have to shut down the VM for my Mac to sleep properly. It's uptime currently matches that of my MacBook ( damn those updates ). It's very rare that I notice any degredation of OSX. It also serves files on my Mac via ftp using the shared folders ( I don't know if PD has shared folders for *nix, yet ). Under Fusion, I have an OpenSolaris VM permanently running it handles DNS for my Mac, hosts a development website, SVN repository, handles outgoing mail ( Apache JAMES ), and runs a couple of databases ( MySQL/Derby ). So much so, that I ended up installing a semi-official ( Parallels acknowledged the problem, but didn't fix it until much later ) APE module to make it behave properly. To top it all off, it was slow and degraded OSX performance. They then returned the favour with a lack of support, and virtually no *nix support ( it was always promised, yet took until v3 ). It's a shame really, I pre-ordered Parallels before it's release to show my support for what claimed to be a small, independent Mac developer. Add in VMware's excellent *nix support ( not something you're concerned with, I know ) and better support mechanism ( it has one ) and the choice became a no-brainer. Fusion wins hands down with regards to stability. At that point, I removed it, and haven't regretted it. I had Parallels installed, right up until Fusion beta 3.

And I am sure that future versions will address the current feature gaps with Parallels. I think VMWare's Fusion team has done an admirable job on V1.0 of their product.

#VMWARE FUSION OR PARALLELS WINDOWS#

So, Windows XP remains my Windows OS choice.

Matter of fact, one of my critical Windows apps, Microsoft Money 2006, does not run properly under Vista. I currently have no use for any of the 'new features' inside Vista. I do not have any USB 2.0 devices that are supported only under Windows so I turn auto-connect USB devices off inside my VM.Ĥ. The following features have no impact on this decision:ġ. Again, I did not find any corresponding feature like this within VMWare Fusion. The mounts are treated just like any other mounted volume by Mac's Finder. Parallels also auto mounts the partitions inside my VM when the VM is running. When my VM is open inside Parallels Explorer, I can easily copy files out of my VM without running the VM itself. This nifty little tool allows me to look at my Parallels VM in a pseudo Finder like Window. I found no corresponding feature within VMWare Fusion. Parallels automatically creates Mac Application launch shortcuts for Windows apps that can be searched for using Spotlight (I often use Spotlight to start applications). Plus, I've run into instances where the Start bar will no longer respond. I know that there is a change you can make to the VMWare Tools configuration to display the Start bar along the bottom of my Mac desktop but I really don't care for the Start bar being displayed there. Contrast this with Unity which provides no real way to do the same thing. I find this to be the best way to start Windows apps from my VM.

When I click on this icon, I get the Windows Start menu right above the icon. In Parallels, when I turn on Coherence, the Parallels dock icon changes to a combo Windows Start Button/Parallels icon. I gave VMWare Fusion RC1 a thorough run through over the past several days and my decision to stay with Parallels comes down to the following:

Vmware fusion or parallels