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). -- Mike Horwath ipHouse - Welcome home! [log in to unmask] The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. - Berkeley Fortune