VMWare Fusion vs Parallels

[navier-stokes]

I'm buying a new mac soon and need to know the differences between these two... which works better and what specific problems does each of thing give?

I've had a bit of experience running windows from linux with vmware and for the majority it was very smooth, some issues with displaying the correct resolution when going full screen though.

Which would people recommend?

Ta!

[saMac]

i use vmware. i like it - very flexible... i can run a virtual linux cluster for testing distributed processing applications.

haven't used parallels.

[ChrisA]

I've had a bit of experience running windows from linux with vmware and for the majority it was very smooth, some issues with displaying the correct resolution when going full screen though.

If you use VMware on Linux stick with VMware on the Mac. One neat thing is that the VMs' you make on the Linux system will "play" on the Mac under Fusion. VMware, unlike Parallels runs on Macs, Linux and Windows. But VMware's installation and user interface is much more polished on the Mac then on Linux and it DOES get the screen resolution correct.

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

Boot Camp, CrossOver, Parallels, VMware Fusion in three bullet points each! (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=439006)

[ajpl]

Boot Camp, CrossOver, Parallels, VMware Fusion in three bullet points each! (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=439006)

Hmm seeing as that post is from well before the current versions of the software were launched, it's not too useful.

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

Hmm seeing as that post is from well before the current versions of the software were launched, it's not too useful.
I believe the only thing that's not correct is the single vs. multiple snapshots added to VMware Fusion 2.0. See anything else worth updating?

[Banacek]

My vote goes to Fusion. Parallels VMs seem to have issues when you pause them frequently.