Well, for as much as Parallels touted their Desktop 4 product is 50% faster, I have to admit that I’m initially impressed with Fusion’s speed. Its running extremely well on the same virutal machine that I imported from Parallels. The only nagging problem is the stuipid Norton Antivirus which apparently thinks I have changed systems [...]
Since I’ve blogged about my great problems with the Parallel’s Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I couldn’t not post this in case you’ve found yourself in the same boat. VMware Fusion is being offered at 50% off for Cyber Monday. (Just use the coupon code “CyberMondayDeal” on checkout). In addition, if you are a Parallels Desktop or [...]
Well, after a week of issues with the Parallels Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I trashed my VM that I have lovingly used for the past year and I have started over with a fresh import from the Virutal PC VHD file I keep on hand. See, here is my history with Windows virtualization on the Mac: [...]
Well, it seems that my problem isn’t with the new version of Parallels Desktop, but with the VM image that I have upgraded, several times. A little background: my Windows XP is a licensed copy originally purchased with Virtual PC back in the PowerPC days of Mac. I imported this image into Parallels in version [...]
Well, my upgrade has not gone smoothly. My VM conversion failed in step 2. I’m left with a virtual machine that is not doing so well, and I ran out of time last night to work on it. So hopefully tonight, I can get some kinks worked out and get it back operational.
Word of advice [...]
I was an early adopter for the Intel Mac phenom. Parallels was much faster to market with their Mac virtualization product and so I have been a loyal user of Parallels Desktop since it was introduced. I have tried VMware Fusion and I’m fond of the product, but Apples to Apples (pun intended), the softwares [...]
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