As many of you know, I have achieved a higher plane of being by primarily using a Mac for my computing needs 
Like all enlightened people, however, one sometimes needs to see how the less fortunate live, so I run my Windows environments virtually, and for the last year or so I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for this purpose.
Parallels has become somewhat infamous in recent months with its rapid growth and development, but in my view, this has happened too fast. Not to put too fine a point on it: it’s buggy shite.
My least favourite features:
- It rarely permits sleep because of its half-baked accelerated graphics support.
- It screws around with launch services on both machines, so you never quite know what will happen when you click on a doc
- A 768mb virtual machine makes a 2GB Mac Pro sluggish
- No multi-cpu support - my Mac Pro has 4 cores so would be nice if virtual machines could use more than one of them.
- Rubbish Linux support
So in recent days, I chose to evaluate VMWare Fusion. It’s at RC1 stage, but is still, in my opinion, more stable than Parallels Desktop. It solves all the above complaints.
My one doubt on VMWare is that although they had a long and respectable pedigree on virtualisation, they had a lot to learn on writing good Mac apps. The seem to have got that right now.
So, it’s bye-bye Parallels, and welcome VMWare
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Gotta agree with you. I’ve been really loving Fusion for a while now and the ability to use those virtual machines on other platforms for free with VMware’s freeware Player software is a huge bonus.
Parallels needs to stop pumping in endless features and focus on stability.
I saw this today http://rentzsch.com/notes/blocklevelParallelsFusionMigration
I did have some trouble moving images from Parallels to Fusion, but the above link explains it fairly well.
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