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Parallels desktop vs vmware fusion1/31/2024 VMware Fusion’s interface looks like it’s been cobbled together with sticks and duct tape.Īreas where Desktop Virtualisation continues to suck, no matter what product you use: Interface (subjective): Parallels Desktop v5 is beautiful – it’s crisp and clean.Testing creating a few other drives all exhibited similarly terrible performance. Creating a pre-allocated 60GB disk this morning took almost an hour. When creating pre-allocated disks, Parallels is at least twice as fast as Fusion.The Linux guest wouldn’t even get past the LILO prompt. The Windows 2003 guest went through a non-stop boot cycle where after 5 seconds or so of booting it would reset. I tried to use VMware’s import utility this morning on both a Windows 2003 guest and a Linux guest and both were completely unusable. Not once did I have a problem with “standard” machines. For standard Linux and Windows guests, I’ve imported at least 30 different machines from VMware ESX and VMware Server hosted environments into Parallels Desktop.It’s distracting and I can live with it, but it’s pretty shoddy. I’m talking seamless window movement in Coherence, with noticeable ghosting in Unity. Even under Parallels Desktop v4, Coherence mode was significantly faster than Unity.(Maybe Coherence in v5 works better … oops, no, wait, it doesn’t work at all for multiple monitors so I can’t even begin to think that.)Īreas where Parallels kicks Fusion’s Butt: This means that it can run across the middle of the secondary monitor, depending on how your monitors are layed out. Coherence, when it extends across multiple monitors, extends the Windows Task Bar across multiple monitors in the same position.
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