I have both Parallels 2.5 (!) and VMware Fusion 1.1.1, and I think that Parallels has some features making it more usable than Fusion.įirst, Parallels’ Coherence Mode excludes the Dock while VMware’s Unity does not, maximized windows or the start menu (if you have it displayed) are partially obscured by the Mac’s Dock. The only problem is frustrating lack of clarity on support from 3rd party vendors – I’m trying to start a discussion on my blog here In the Wintel enterprise space I work in VMWare is making the underlying tin pretty irrelevant/disposable, you can buy cheaper hardware as you can acheive a good level of fault-tolerance via a “virtual grid” using ESX and start to get away from some of the religious arguments over being an HP or IBM shop because they integrate better with the chosen OS. VMWare has totally changed my workflow in the years I’ve used it in my infrastructure support/projects roles no longer do I need to maintain rooms of spare PCs and spend hours building or (worse!) re-building test machines, debugging faulty/old spare hardware just clone, snapshot, roll back or trash. You /can/ run Mac OS X under VMWare on a PC if you google hard enough (unofficial/illegal hack.) it works but performance could do with some improvements. Now I’ve started using a Mac Book Pro I was able to literally drag and drop my library of standard build Windows test/dev VMs from my USB flash drive to my Mac and fire them up and keep going – simple! VMWare make excellent products I’ve used Workstation since 2000 on the PC and moved into the server products since. ![]() VMWare will duke it out with Redmond and send the lawsuits flying, but bows to Apple’s “nonsensical EULA”. OSX on Apple hardware, nice, in terms of true virtualization, but quite missing the point in terms of the market wants. So if they don’t suck up to Microsoft, why Apple? Fusion and OSX for the PC, please - no more OSx86 hacked up hassles. I just can’t imagine VMWare saying “it is important to work with them to make sure that everyone can have success together” or “respects their licensing policies” about Microsoft. Funny how, people always talk about Apple being an important partner (read suck up to), Microsoft never gets that treatment from VMWare. ![]() Still I want to run OSX on my Gateway Tablets and souped up HP. Yeah, I’ve noticed that too, thought it was only me. ![]() □ In general, SP1 much better overall, fixed some of the weird WPA2 wireless problems, and runs tons smoother, virtual and regular. I have noticed massive Fusion/Vista improvements, since SP1, bit more snappy, Vista was virtualization brutalization.
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