My work requires me to occasionally use Windows and Linux, as well as older versions of OS X. Fortunately, as a Mac user, I have several ways to run multiple operating systems without switching computers. In addition to OS X’s Boot Camp, I have my choice of three virtualization products for Mac:,, or Oracle’s. Using any of those three, I can pop into another OS as easily as launching an app. Each of these products has its partisans, and I’m not going to tell you definitively which one you should choose. Parallels ($79.99 for one Mac): VMware Fusion and Parallels are very similar, but Parallels guides you through the installation process more closely. It also focuses on home users, who simply need. Review: Parallels Desktop 8 vs. VMware Fusion 5. Running the current generations of these two virtualization programs—Parallels 8 Desktop for Mac () and VMware Fusion 5 (). But I did want to explain why I’ve settled on VMWare Fusion as my go-to virtualization choice. (By way of disclosure, I should mention that I wrote books about Fusion versions 2 and 3; it’s now at version 6. I have also been a Parallels user almost since its very first release. I have no particular allegiance to one developer or another. I just want to get my work done in the most efficient way possible, with a minimum of distraction and complication.) I’ve seen many,, and feature checklists for these products. In its last couple of comparisons, Macworld has concluded that Parallels and Fusion are virtually equivalent, the differences increasingly minor with each revision. ![]() VirtualBox remains an outlier. Although, and the price (free) is certainly right, to me it feels rough and unfinished. More specifically, it has a user interface only a developer could love, its performance isn’t even in the same ballpark as its two commercial competitors, and it requires quite a bit of fiddling to get basic settings right—something I never have to think about with Parallels or Fusion. VirtualBox is functional, but it isn't as polished as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop. OS in a box So, what am I looking for in a virtualization environment? For starters, I’m concerned only with conventional business apps—I don’t use virtualization for gaming, 3D graphics, or anything else that would tax virtual processors or graphics cards. That means I’m not going to nitpick about the small differences in performance that might exist between one tool and the next. Furthermore, I don’t need Windows programs to appear as though they were native Mac applications (using, for example, Parallels’ Coherence mode or Fusion’s Unity view); I prefer to keep Windows in its own virtual display and to run Windows apps inside that. So many of the advanced user interface tricks that virtualization software provide are wasted on me. Similarly, any clutter, background processes, or other doohickeys that intrude upon my normal, day-to-day Mac use are a disadvantage. Parallels, for example, automatically adds a folder of Windows applications to my Dock without my permission, so I have to remove it manually. VirtualBox installs four kernel extensions at startup, which remain loaded constantly even if I never use the app.
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