Parallels & VMWare

MuGeN

MuGeN

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About 18 months ago, I did both trials, and thought VMWare the clear winner, and bought it...

haven't used a VM for a while and needed one again and out of interest loaded up a Parallels trial to see if there had been any improvements (mainly due to doing an update to VMware a while back and thinking it had lost some spark and wasn't quite as reliable)

is it me, or is Parallels a clear winner again? seems bloody brilliant to me but its also 60 quid...
 
I use both VM Fusion 3 and Parallels 5 every day - and there are differences.

If you're running desktop based OS like Win7/WinXP then I'd agree Parallels 5 comes out on top. It's faster, and integrates better with the host.

If you want scaling of multiple guests & server Operating Systems, and ease of moving said guests to thinks like VMWare Server & ESX then Fusion wins out.

All of my server based stuff is on Fusion. I can get far more guests running than I can with Parallels.
 
I own both previous versions of VMWare Fusion and Parallels and I trialled the new versions of both of them. After running them for a while I only bought the upgrade to Parallels and I no longer have VMWare Fusion on my Mac. I just prefer the way Parallels work and I found that Windows runs significantly faster in Parallels than Fusion.
 
Interesting opinions there ... I tried VMware and Parallels when their new versions came out and found Parallels to be more than a little flaky so I plumped for VMware and am very pleased with it indeed.

..might try it again though if those bugs have been ironed out!

Cheers,
Adam
 
Is there a fix for the activation issue when you boot your BootCamp Windows 7 partition in VMware Fusion 3 yet?
 
After a few weeks of owning the latest versions of both, I've settled with VM Fusion 3. Parallels just had too many niggly little bugs for my liking. To date I've had absolutely no issues with VM.
 
I can actually game within Parallels and it's acceptable. I can't do that in Fusion, it sucks! (in my opinion, of course)
 
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