Agrerald Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 What is better VMware Fusion or Parallels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted March 27, 2011 Administrators Share Posted March 27, 2011 Fusion.. atleast on my system.. besides, vmware machines works cross-OS, eg. if you have a machine that runs on windows.. it will also run on osx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thund3rbolt Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 I tried using parallels with my setup and it was brutal trying to get it to to work with chameleon. I ended up pooching my system and had to start over. fusion all the way! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppo Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 I tried using parallels with my setup and it was brutal trying to get it to to work with chameleon. I ended up pooching my system and had to start over. fusion all the way! I use both, Parallels and Fusion on my main machine. I started with VMWare back than and just tried the test version of Parallels, out of pure curiosity. I already had bought Fusion license, so... not really looking for a replacement. However, when I tried to transfer my D430 WinVista into a virtual machine with VMWare, I was not able to do so. And I don't say "the software" was not able. Might be just me. But when I tried Parallels, it went without a glitch. So, I bought Parallels 4 (I think it was for 10.5.whatever) license, successfully upgraded to 5 and than to 6. I could import all my VMWare machines and generally never had any issues. It just works like advertised, despite Chameleon. It feels faster to me and I deem it better integrating into the Mac environment. The only time when Parallels let me down was when I was trying to import the Fusion image of Lion. It simply failed with no big explanations why. So, I run Lion in Fusion. All other things (Win7, OS X 6.7 Server, Ubuntu and such) in Parallels. Having said that, I think performance and usability wise they are no really big differences. Finally, it comes down to your own personal taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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