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Three things to know about Parallels Desktop for Mac

using network settings in corporate environments is difficult with parallels, vm-ware settings are much easier, the bridged network settings just work, and is set only in the vm setting. parallels comes with a complicated network setup both in parallels and in the vm-setup. and: i had problems after the last update of v5.

Good assessment of virtual Windows on Mac. While applications like Parallels are a significant improvement over earlier products like Virtual PC for Mac, I still prefer dual boot and Boot Camp for better performance. I rarely need to share files between Windows and OS X and I use Boot Camp with Windows XP only when I need to run a few Windows only apps. 85-90% of what I do is on Mac, so as you indicate, the virtual OS like Parallels is too much of a parasite for my needs and the performance penalty and resource drain are not worth it.

I know not everybody has one but just to let those who may want to get a new MBP i7 with 8 GIG memory it works well indeed. I use both Parallels 5 and Fusion 3. I set each MV to use 2 processors and 1536 megs of mem. I can run three virtual machines at the same time with no real performance hit. I generally have an XP, Win 7, and either Ubuntu or Linux Mint 9 open at the same time. I can still run Apple apps like Aperture. I don't do this on battery power though unless I only need 3 hours or less time. I tend to run Parallels 5 more than VMware Fusion 3. They both work well though. I have never used bookcamp.

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I haven't used either in a corporate environment. Parallels is excellent, the first virtualization app I used when I got a Macbook Pro back in 2007. But the upgrade costs got to be too much, so I now use Oracle's VirtualBox, which is free and certainly adequate for my needs. I do miss not being able to use my Boot Camp installation of Windows, though...

I've never had boot camp partitions play nicely with either VMWare or Parallels. Both caused *severe* activation breaks on MS applications and even non-MS stuff (more and more a problem as so many programs phone home anymore) - so I've had to force Fusion and Parallels to leave my bootcamp partition alone.

But Parallels even with virtual machines was a world of hurt compared to Fusion. I want my Windows and Mac environments to be isolated. I don't want to double-click a file on mac side and find that Parallels has started to launch Windows. Sure you can force Parallels to turn that crap off but out of the box it defaults to that. Fusion may be technically slower, but it is controllable and behaves itself. Parallels felt like a cancer in my system - just spreading out and infecting and re-directing everything without my asking for it. Windows program launches on my dock? Never wanted it, never asked for it, total hell to get rid of it. Sorry, but I'm not going down that path ever again. I'm sticking with Fusion.

No repair no sale, won't even let me look at VM just crash when I try and this is not the first time VMware Fusion???s, I have been able to recover my VM I will take slower over not being able to recover, I see it's been awhile scene anyone posted but I just want to let know it ain't fixed yet