Hi Peter, Out of interest, did you use all three just to compare the different applications - or do you use different VMs for different tasks.
What, if any, would you rate as the particular pros/cons or points of difference of the three approaches - other than the obvious cost advantage of Sun's VirtualBox. I've only ever run Parallels 3.0 - just because it seemed to be the one everyone recommended at the time that I purchased it - I had a lot of trouble at the time upgrading my XP Pro VM (imported from Virtual PC) to SP2 but once I got that sorted (thank you Peter Hinchcliffe!) it seems to do OK so I didn't look any further. However, I suppose that at some point (SL upgrade?) I will need to look at upgrading from Parallels 3.0 - so I suppose that will be a good time to also look at the alternatives. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:12 AM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > Hi Peter > > I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox > (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you > are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be > fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably > the better option - that is of course debatable. > > There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy > of Windows to install in the virtual machine. > > If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd > probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. > > Regards, > > Chris. > > > >> From: Peter Curtis <pcur...@aapt.net.au> >> Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> >> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 >> To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> >> Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today >> >> Hi >> I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run >> on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've >> bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got >> around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might >> be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a >> reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of >> windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing >> what program I use? >> Thanks in anticipation. >> Regards >> Peter >> On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: >>> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 >>> September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion >>> this is quite a saving if you¹re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
