| I have tried VMware Fusion as per info that trial was free on this thread) here is some comparison with Parallels v2.
1. VMware is definitely more sexy in how you interact with it. Examples:
VMware : drag and drop directly from OSX to windows
Parallels : use a shared folder to swap files
VMware : ability to have windows from the windows environment without the PC background
Parallels : the fully windows environment is required either in a window or full screen
2. Cloning is a menu function in parallels and in VMware this involves files copy and XML-SETUP file manual edits.
3. Parallels v2 seems faster than VMware on a macbook
4. VMFusions files are bigger than Parallels (windows, pro suite, specific apps = 2.5Gb on Parallels and 3.2Gb on VMFusion)
5. I lost patience with both VMware and Parallels to get USB integration - this means I did not bother with network integration either.
Generally speaking, if you plan to run one instance of Windows on your mac, I think VMware is better. However, if you need to play around with multiple windows virtual machines then probably Parallels is a better option.
Oh, I did try running both Parallels and VMware simultaneously, appart from dramatic slowdown, it did work :-)
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