Sun xVM VirtualBox - why buy Parallels or VMWare Fusion?


i installed virtualbox today , installed windows xp on it.

, made me wonder why people on here keep talking parallels (and lesser extent, vmware fusion)? firstly, fusion better parallels, why attention parallels? , virtualbox free, why attention on parallels again?

virtualbox snap install. got , running in no time, without configuring, other creating virtual machine, assigning ram it, , specifying size. of done within wizard, it's snap.

after installation, installed guest additions (drivers), , ran great. smoothly, , plays rest of os x - not slowdown or anything. of course there's slight slowdown, it's eating big chunk of ram (~600 mb of ram, assigned 512 mb of ram, plus overhead).

seamless works great. windows runs great. software works well.

reason pay vmware fusion (or *sigh* parallels) if want directx acceleration , if want use boot camp partition virtual machine. first, "why?" acceleration, it's not gaming, , games runs adequately in virtual environment run better when booted windows. , second, each one's own, wouldn't that, because know how windows hardware. changing hardware drastically boot boot tends mess fast.

why people continue pay vmware (and parallels) when there's great, free, alternative out there?

(and yes, need acceleration vmware/parallels offers reasonable reason ;) autocad or non-gaming graphics-heavy programs excused ;))
 

well, use 1 of commercial apps (eh, yes, parallels) , run autocad , inventor on it. virtualbox slow overall (but it's still breeze compared virtual pc in earlier days) , couldn't manage shut down virtual machine without having machine crashing before shut down of times. usb support isn't either @ moment.

virtualbox seems in longlasting beta stage. thing is, it's developed and, of course, it's free. , linux support way better parallels. in time might end using virtualbox. not @ moment.
 


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