Sorry, this obviously should have been directed to Chris, rather than Peter.
Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:47 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > > 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>
