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VMware Fusion 3 or Parallels Desktop 5.0 for Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1084697" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>VirtualBox is pure virtualization of the operating system. This means you make a virtual hard disk and run a virtual machine inside your OSX operating system. Parallels and VMWare can work this way as well. On top of being able to run a Virtual Machine Parallels and VMWare can point to a real partition - read bootcamp partition - and run a virtual machine of that partition. On top of that VMWare and Parallels have modes that make windows directly integrate into Mac OSX. </p><p></p><p>Here is a pretty good head to head of parallels 5 vs vmware 3</p><p><a href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/special/1002-VirtualizationHeadToHead/index.html" target="_blank">Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware Fusion</a></p><p></p><p>Here is a pretty bad head to head of virtualbox vs parallels vs vmware </p><p><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others" target="_blank">VBox_vs_Others - VirtualBox</a></p><p>For example parallels 5 can import vmware images, supports 64 bit hosts, and supports openGL flip3d and the Aero interface with nary a slowdown.</p><p>So I have a feeling this was comparing Virtualbox to Parallels 4 - but it gives you an idea of what people look for in virtualization software.</p><p></p><p>Long story short - if you don't run bootcamp and never need to run a guest operating system with full resources Virtualbox is fine. If you do run bootcamp and you want to access that partition through a virtual machine as well as be able to boot into it - then look at Parallels/VMware. I actually switched to Parallels (and bought it in the Mac Update Promo) and found it to be much faster than VMWare 3.0.1 - I've been using Parallels for the last year instead of VMWare. I had started with VMWare because it is what my company supported - but I was able to import the VMWare images with no problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1084697, member: 145676"] VirtualBox is pure virtualization of the operating system. This means you make a virtual hard disk and run a virtual machine inside your OSX operating system. Parallels and VMWare can work this way as well. On top of being able to run a Virtual Machine Parallels and VMWare can point to a real partition - read bootcamp partition - and run a virtual machine of that partition. On top of that VMWare and Parallels have modes that make windows directly integrate into Mac OSX. Here is a pretty good head to head of parallels 5 vs vmware 3 [url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/special/1002-VirtualizationHeadToHead/index.html]Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware Fusion[/url] Here is a pretty bad head to head of virtualbox vs parallels vs vmware [url=http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others]VBox_vs_Others - VirtualBox[/url] For example parallels 5 can import vmware images, supports 64 bit hosts, and supports openGL flip3d and the Aero interface with nary a slowdown. So I have a feeling this was comparing Virtualbox to Parallels 4 - but it gives you an idea of what people look for in virtualization software. Long story short - if you don't run bootcamp and never need to run a guest operating system with full resources Virtualbox is fine. If you do run bootcamp and you want to access that partition through a virtual machine as well as be able to boot into it - then look at Parallels/VMware. I actually switched to Parallels (and bought it in the Mac Update Promo) and found it to be much faster than VMWare 3.0.1 - I've been using Parallels for the last year instead of VMWare. I had started with VMWare because it is what my company supported - but I was able to import the VMWare images with no problem. [/QUOTE]
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