On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:30:48AM -0600, Kristofer Pettijohn wrote:
> I'm curious to know what people prefer for virtualization
> options. I'm talking about running another OS on your home machine
> (regardless of platform, Windows/Mac/Linux/FreeBSD/etc) -- and not
> for running any type of commercial or personal servers .. just the
> end-user desktop type virtualization.
>
> For my response to the topic, I used to be a big fan of Parallels on
> the Mac. The only thing I really used it for was running Windows so
> I could get to Quicken, because I greatly despise the Macintosh
> version of Quicken with all of the features it lacks. A few months
> ago I tried VirtualBox and was quite impressed with what it could
> do, at a fraction of the price (free).

Personally: Fusion

Parallels boots faster, but everything runs better in Fusion.
Everything.

http://www.geekandi.com/2008/12/29/vmware-fusion-2x-vs-parallels-desktop-40-my-thoughts/

http://www.geekandi.com/2009/01/16/vmware-fusion-vs-parallels-windows-server-2008-install/

go me.

Fusion rules cause I use a ton of VMware vSphere stuff now'days, I can
prototype via Fusion and move it on over easily and quickly.

I give Fusion 3 thumbs up (as my 4 year old says).

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