Vmware Vs Parallels For Mac

Update (Sept 7): Check out the latest my now! Update (Aug 31): I’ve just gotten hold of both. So do check back soon for an update to this article in about a weeks time after I’ve had some time with both of them.

For now, you may want to check out my. It’s without a doubt that the very recent release of and has invigorated the on-going comparisons between the two popular virtualization solutions for Mac users.

Both has its own merits and depending on your expectations and needs from the virtualization solution, both choices will deliver what it promises to you. I’ve previously written an article on why I thought just beats the heck out of VMWare Fusion 3. Well, that’s before VMWare Fusion 4 was released. Now that it has finally been released, a fairer comparison can now be made between the two. In writing this article, I would be looking for the strengths of both VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop. And in each of those strong points, I would also compare what the other has to offer.

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VMware Fusion gives Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. Fusion is simple enough for home users and powerful enough for IT professionals and businesses. Try it for free today. By default, both Parallels and VMware run their VMs in a window - so you get a kind of 'Windows window' that displays the Windows desktop floating in its own window on top of the Mac desktop.

And I’d also summarize to a few key decisions makers on which solution you would eventually choose. I would not however be listing down all the features and functionalities and then compare them side-by-side. I would also not rely on synthetic benchmarks to compare the performance between the two. Instead, my assessment would be from the usability point of view, which IMHO just makes more sense. So let’s start with VMWare Fusion 4 and where it excels.

VMware Fusion: Vast guest operating system support! First up, I believe one of ‘s best point (and well, VMware in general) is its supportability of many popular guest OS. This is perhaps one of the main reason why you would want to run VMWare Fusion, instead of Parallels. I mean, it even officially supports Novell NetWare! And on a personal basis, I do need to run a Solaris guest OS at times to run tests for work and only VMWare allowed me to run Solaris 11 Express without any issues. As you can see from the screen shot on the left, I was able to install Solaris perfectly.

So, if being able to run a vast array of operating systems as the guest OS is important to you, then look no further. Would be on of your best choice in this area, especially so if you need to OSes other than just Windows, OS X or Linux. But wait, what about then?

Well, if you just need to run Windows, the various popular Linux distributions (I’ve personally tested Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat and they work fine) and OS X, the Parallels works well too. However, when I tried to boot Solaris Express 11 on, it just hung at the boot-up screen. It didn’t even go all the way into booting up the Solaris image where I can then proceed to install the OS!

VMWare Fusion: Great Linux support for Unity view To be honest, this feature took me by surprise. It looks and works really great. And this is perhaps where has been able to excel pretty well against Parallels Desktop. Basically, what this allows you to do is to have Linux applications run as if it was part of the Mac OS X OS. You can also see from the screenshot on the right how ‘s Applications Menu would also display the Linux guest OS’ Applications menu. Very cool and really useful if you use quite a number of linux-based applications in your line of work. I have however only managed to test this on a Red Hat based VM image and did not fully test this on other Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu or even SuSe Linux.

However, I would think that all major Linux distributions would work just the same. This Unity mode however is not supported on Sun Solaris if you are wondering. 🙂 As for, it’s Coherence mode on Linux (such as Ubuntu) was kinda weird. If you see the screenshot on the left, you’d notice that the Ubuntu’s menu bar is still visible right below the host OS X menu bar. Not only that, you can also see Ubuntu’s bottom bar as well. Also, you would need to log into Ubuntu using it’s classic mode without any visual effects. (See the Parallels Knowledge Base ) While it works well and in my humble opinion still maintains a better integration to Lion and also having better visual performances (dragging the Linux application window on ‘s Unity mode is pretty choppy), having the guest Linux OS’ menu bar on the Mac desktop is just weird and inconsistent with the Coherence experience on Windows.

I’d think that they could have done something similar as how it would work on Windows! VMWare: Better and more consistent settings menu This is yet another area that I like how VMWare has put in a little more effort that Parallels did. Sure, setting up the VM instance usually only happens a few times in it’s lifetime. But it sure don’t hurt to have a Settings menu that looks easy to understand and is also consistent with the OS X’s System Preferences menu. It even works almost like the OS X’s System Preferences menu including the categorization of the setting types and also how the menu animates into and out of a setting as well as the ‘ Show All‘ button at the top left corner of the menu.