VMFusion Ware, Parallels etc., is there any appreciable difference? Likes/dislikes or recommendations.
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Todd
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I have no experience with VM Fusion but I love my Parallels.
Parallels 6 is the current version and I have used Parallels since version 2. Version 7 is in beta now.
In Parallels I can assign number of CPUs and RAM totals to virtual hosts. Also you can fine tune peripherals.
Using Parallels 5 and then upgraded to 6 I have had production www Servers running Parallels/64bit Ubuntu Server with Webmin for administration. This is all done to give Snow Leopard Server a functioning DNS package as the DNS in Snow Leopard Server DOES NOT WORK outside of a local office. Ubuntu kicks butt and takes names and it plays nice running concurrently with Snow Leopard Server.
In my local community I have had several medical imaging companies come by the office to add their custom software so my doctors can access xrays inside of hospitals or imaging firms and every company has said they believe I have the fastest Windows computer in the county and it is a 6 processor i7 iMac with a 250GB SSD running Parallels 5 and Windows XP Pro. (yes hospitals all use old but very stable operating systems and that is why I am still on XP and not Win 7).
Dale Josephson
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On Jun 3, 2011, at Friday6:34 AM, Todd wrote:
VMFusion Ware, Parallels etc., is there any appreciable difference? Likes/dislikes or recommendations.
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Don’t know why Todd’s original post does not show…
Although i’m not a huge user of either, I do use Fusion with Windows XP Pro. The current version is much faster than previous versions used to be and seems very stable. But again, I only use it occasionally to check a web page or some obscure software I don’t have replicated on the Mac.
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I’ve used Fusion for several years now, and been very happy with it. I
was an extremely early adopter of Parallels, and found it (or maybe it
was just the company) hard to work with. Apple offered me a discounted
upgrade because I was so dissatisfied, and I’ve been happily
virtualizing XP with it for testing purposes.
Walter
On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:50 AM, chuckamuck wrote:
Don’t know why Todd’s original post does not show…
Although i’m not a huge user of either, I do use Fusion with Windows
XP Pro. The current version is much faster than previous versions
used to be and seems very stable. But again, I only use it
occasionally to check a web page or some obscure software I don’t
have replicated on the Mac.
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Sorry, meant to say discounted “sidegrade”, meaning I moved from
Parallels to Fusion at a discount because I had bought Parallels and
then been janked around by whomever owned them that week.
Walter
On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Walter Davis wrote:
I’ve used Fusion for several years now, and been very happy with it.
I was an extremely early adopter of Parallels, and found it (or
maybe it was just the company) hard to work with. Apple offered me a
discounted upgrade because I was so dissatisfied, and I’ve been
happily virtualizing XP with it for testing purposes.Walter
On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:50 AM, chuckamuck wrote:
Don’t know why Todd’s original post does not show…
Although i’m not a huge user of either, I do use Fusion with
Windows XP Pro. The current version is much faster than previous
versions used to be and seems very stable. But again, I only use it
occasionally to check a web page or some obscure software I don’t
have replicated on the Mac.
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I use Fusion on my 3.06 iMac running Vista but dont really use it for any heavy lifting like Dale does - but for checking sites on a Windoze box it does the job well.
Have no clue how it would perform with a more recent Windoze system.
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