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- #MAC PARALLELS VS VMWARE FUSION UPGRADE#
- #MAC PARALLELS VS VMWARE FUSION PRO#
- #MAC PARALLELS VS VMWARE FUSION TRIAL#
I typically run Mail, Chrome, Skype, Twitter, Evernote and iPlayer on the Mac alongside my virtualisation host My virtual machine guests reside on an external USB 2.0 hard drive
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#MAC PARALLELS VS VMWARE FUSION PRO#
My host machine is an 8GB Macbook Pro 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 with a Crucial 256GB SATA III SSD
#MAC PARALLELS VS VMWARE FUSION TRIAL#
I downloaded it with a free 14 day trial and have been using it for the last week, day to day as my main SharePoint development platform. Reading over the technical literature, and scouring the net for reviews revealed pretty much feature parity with VMWare, fine, claims of huge performance figures running Windows virtual machines, dismissed as marketing hype. I got to a point were I could not use it as a development platform for my day to day work – I need consistency, reliability and most importantly dependability, and so I reluctantly looked at the alternatives, which brought me to Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac. I began to suspect (with the help of Activity Monitor) that VMWare Fusion, in its attempt to appear quicker, was doing quite a lot of stuff in the background, such as flushing a virtual machine saved state and snapshot deltas out to physical storage – and quite slowly at that. Increasingly sluggish performance as the day worse on.I began to notice strange and subtle virtual hard drive corruption taking place, SQL Server database suddenly becoming corrupted and requiring a DBCC, or worse requiring complete reconstruction.Banging away at the VM all day with SharePoint development (VS2010, SP2010, SQL Server et al) would, 9 times out of 10, completely hose the VM’s suspend feature, such that after choosing to suspend the VM it would close down pretty snappy, then trying to shutdown the Mac would fail and simply wait with the spinny beachball for hours, actual hours before eventually the Mac would close down.Running up a guest VM using it for a bit and suspending was fine.Though after a while the problems started The snapshot management interface is simply beautiful. Initially things were fine, I noticed some improvement in Windows guest performance, although restoring and suspending guest VM’s didn’t seem improved. Version 4, which I eagerly upgraded to, promised much I my opinion the culmination of this was arrived at with version 3.1.3, quite literally “Best version ever”!
#MAC PARALLELS VS VMWARE FUSION UPGRADE#
It has been rock solid, reliable and dependable without question, and with each passing upgrade things only got better – slicker UIs, new and improved features, faster performance etc etc. I’ve used it every day for the last 4 years right from version 2.0.1, for developing on the Microsoft platform, and most especially with SharePoint. Let me begin by saying that I have been, and probably will continue to be a firm fan of VMWare Fusion for Mac.