Comments on: Save Time with VMware Fusion

By: Walid El Herpha

Walid El Herpha — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:39:52 +0000

Fusion is the best as I found in it one feature that will not be in parallel for sure
I have windows vista on my MAC using the bootcamp and as I can boot it alone or boot my Mac osx alone
I even can boot mac and fusion read it from inside the mac and boot it for me as an Image file
its a wooooooow feature for me

By: Searching for the Ideal Workstation Desktop | tdhedengren

Searching for the Ideal Workstation Desktop | tdhedengren — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:17:54 +0000

[...] and managed to crash everything while installing Ubuntu, which was probably due to VMware Fusion (reviewed here) not getting a response from me, rather than an issue with Ubuntu itself. These are open source [...]

By: Chad Crowell

Chad Crowell — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:54:58 +0000

I actually have both installed right now on my MBP Core Duo 2.0, 2mb RAM and VMWare is clearly faster. However,t he old VMWare version lacked a lot of polish- so be sure to use the latest release. Also, Parallels is still struggling to work with 10.5 perfectly, while VMWare runs flawlessly.

Also don’t forget, your virtual machine will start slowing down the more you install, just like on a PC, so keep it as lean as possible. I just have a bunch of browsers for testing, XP tweak UI to speed up the menus, and thats about it.

By: TDH

TDH — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:39:17 +0000

Paul, I don’t do paid reviews, and certainly not without disclosure, so the answer is no. I’m sorry if I sound to positive for your taste, but VMware Fusion is that great.

By: thomas

thomas — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:02:19 +0000

Good post.

I haven’t used Parallels yet, but I have been using Fusion since it was in beta (and other virtualization products for 4+ years). It’s very stable and works well.

VMware also has a beta application (called ‘Importer Beta’) that allows you to easily import Parallels VMs into Fusion.

I wrote a quick post on my blog about the 1.1 release of Fusion. You can find it here.

By: whit

whit — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:46:19 +0000

we use this at work and WOW isn’t it nifty! don’t you just love it?!

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:20:50 +0000

I have recently been thinking about this. I run Ubuntu but as much as I enjoy open source it doesn’t have the fleet of applications that windows has (at the same quality any ways). This would be the perfect solution but whether I will get the right use out of it after paying is the question. Is it worth it?

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:02:54 +0000

I use Parallels instead of VMware, and so far I don’t regret it. I haven’t used the two side-by-side, but they seem to be comparable products with near identical features.

I know with Parallels you don’t actually have to own a full license of Windows to install. You can use an upgrade ISO (make one using Disk Utility) and an ISO of an older version of Windows to do an install. Not sure if you can do this with VMware fusion.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:51:28 +0000

This is the second article about VMWare Fusion I’ve seen that really sounds like a paid review. The other was on The Apple Blog… I’m just saying, if you’re not being paid for this, at least try not to sound like it so much.

By: Squawk

Squawk — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:50:47 +0000

I tried an older version of Parallels, which sometimes got painfully slow. It’d be interesting to compare these two apps: Parallels and VMware.. Anybody?

By: VMware Fusion and Raping Widgets « TDH @ WordPress.com

VMware Fusion and Raping Widgets « TDH @ WordPress.com — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:05:18 +0000

[...] Fusion and Raping Widgets I just recently published my VMware Fusion review on Devlounge. Good [...]