I didn't like VMware Fusion the very first time I used it, but I switched back after its final release and haven't looked back since. Fusion is just hands down better than Parallels, and v2 only makes the superiority even more great.
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VIrtualBox is free and nice. But VMWare runs better.
One downer - and this is probably more a Windows XP issue than a VMWare Fusion one: your copy of Windows may get locked up if it goes into standby mode due to inactivity (keeping VMWare in the background for example). This has happened maybe three times to me so far and a restart of the VMWare software does the trick.
This already works with both Parallels 3.0 and Fusion 2.0. You can make shortcuts in your dock to any Windows program, and when you click on it, if Windows isn't already running it will fire up, and then the program will be run.
Of course the "fire up" part can take a couple of minutes while Windows boots up, but that's not any different than what people used to put up with when running MacOS Classic programs on early versions of OS X.
Any box which doesn't require a Windows license to function has Microsoft worried.
Yes. I think you could make it work. With VMware you can "mount" the Window virtual disk and access Windows files from Mac OS X. It mounts just like an ISO or DMG file even when VMware is not active. I think the trick to using Time Machine is to mount the VM's disk image and let TM back up the mounted volume but be sure to exclude the VM's disk image because it remains monolithic. Kind of a work around rather tha the fix you were asking for but not hard. That said, I've not tried it yet.
The key here is that VMwares disk images work like dmg files now f you install the optional software that comes with Fusion. It's a separate Mac OS X app that mounts the images
VMWare 2.0 will allow you to set up your virtual hard drive in 2GB segments. I'll guess that makes it more Time Machine friendly, but haven't tested it out..
Fusion 2.0 is not ready for prime time. For starters, it's slow and jittery on my iMac, which version 1.x never was. It also has a huge problem with capturing my mouse--the cursor jumps around all over the place completely unexpectedly and without any pattern. While 2.0 adds many new features that will be excellent once the bugs are ironed out, it's made my Mac and Windows-in-Mac unusable. I can print just fine from within Windows in Fusion, but now my ability to print directly from the Mac has been killed. I've tried everything. The only way to fix it is to learn how to use the terminal or format and reinstall. I've done everything, but the CUPS Mac printing is toast.
Not impressed. Once I get the printer issues ironed out, I'm going back to 1.x.
I've used Parallels since it's very first beta. Last week I switched to Fusion and paid the $79.
Parallels does not provide adequate support any more, the company has changed for the worse. I left and am not looking back. Fusion seems to run better and gives me less grief.
Ted
What's going on here?
They aren't really like wine.. Crossover is a modified Wine, virtualisation is a different thing for somewhat different uses, and with much greater compatibility than Wine.Vmware and Fusion, are they something like unix's wine? Windows compatibility layer? If so how come wine hasn't been ported to os x? Why do fusion and vmware have to load up full installations of xp and vista and don't go the compatibility (as far as I can tell) layer way the way wine does on my ubuntu?
They aren't really like wine.. Crossover is a modified Wine, virtualisation is a different thing for somewhat different uses, and with much greater compatibility than Wine.
I'm confused, as I'm not seeing the benefits people have mentioned.
I switched from Parallels 3.0 build 5608 to Fusion 2.0 and have found performance to be sub par. Both my OSX and XP vm are slower now. Under parallels most definately my XP vm was more snappier.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I do a clean install of Leopard and try again with Fusion, really dissapointed so far.![]()
Has anyone tried the Parallels 4.0 and how does it fair against Fusion. ( I Own Fusion 2.0)
For what it's worth, in both Parallels and Fusion, a workaround for this that I've found works for Microsoft's Product Activation (the only hardware-based activation stuff I personally have run into) is to ensure that the virtualized ethernet adapter has the same MAC address as the actual hardware adapter.I do the same thing, Boot-camp inside VM, its great for shifting files back and forth. I do this with Vista64 on my iMac and XP on my Macbook.
Only problem is running (sometimes accidentally) apps which need activation, a lot of them get confused and need reactivating if you run them in VM.. A bit of a nuisance - i wish there was a way of telling vmware and parallels that they should not -under any circumstances- load certain applications, heh.
To elaborate on this: WINE is native on *nix OS, emulating the Windows API. It's essentially a whole new rewrite of Windows, and because of that, it supports only those features that the authors of WINE have had the resources to implement. If something is missing that an application depends on, you're SOL.They aren't really like wine.. Crossover is a modified Wine, virtualisation is a different thing for somewhat different uses, and with much greater compatibility than Wine.