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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:39:01 +0000

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By: one digital life » Blog Archive » VMware Fusion for $36

one digital life » Blog Archive » VMware Fusion for $36 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:56:53 +0000

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By: Ed T.

Ed T. — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:09:45 +0000

I’ve been a Parallels user since it was in beta and have installed it at several customer’s sites. And while Parallels is a great product and their staff is undoubtedly overworked, the two answers to support issues I’ve submitted were very rude. Combine that with a consistent (apparently unsolvable) issue with dropped connections from Parallels-Win and WIndows servers, and I’m ripe to dive into VMWare.

Anyway, just wanted to post this link as I was searching for a way to recycle my Microsoft tax from Virtual PC into Parallels (and then into Fusion) and found this direct route from Virtual PC WinXP Pro to self-contained bootable disk (usable in Parallels or VMWare Fusion).
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060527175405403

BTW, Mark Jaquith – Le Very Funny! I feel your pain.

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:34:05 +0000

I, of course, bought Parallels three weeks ago. And six weeks ago? I bought iWork ‘06. I should go buy a bunch of copies of OS X Tiger in late September, just to round out my nearly-obsolete software buying spree. Le sigh.

By: Randy Stewart

Randy Stewart — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:45:37 +0000

Holy god…. If CNET’s tests are accurate, Parallels might be heading for the Trash…

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9760910-1.html?tag=nefd.lede

Except for the fact that Parallels could run Quake, it got royally trounce in CNET’s speed tests.

Eek. I’ve been a loyal Parallels user since its first release.

Cheers,
Randy

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:00:41 +0000

I ended up getting Parallels a while back, mainly because it would import my old Virtual PC images, which saved me a *ton* of time from installing various old versions of Windows and getting different versions of IE installed. Does VMware Fusion import Virtual PC images?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:51:36 +0000

I’m pushing to get site wide licenses for Fusion. IT looks amazing, and parallels sucks… eats up so much memory.

By: Scott Beale

Scott Beale — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:18:33 +0000

Randy,

1. Yes, you can convert a Parallels virtual machine into a VMware virtual machine: http://www.vmware.com/community/ann.jspa?annID=391

You can also use an existing boot camp partition of Windows. I did this on my MacBook Pro last night and it was setup in minutes.

This program is super easy to setup and use. Very impressive for a 1.0 release. I can’t wait to see what they do next with it.

2. Regarding your second question, you may want to do a search in VMware’s KB and support forums: http://www.vmware.com/support/

Maybe someone from VMware will jump in here and answer any questions people might have.

By: Randy Stewart

Randy Stewart — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:55:26 +0000

Scott-

Two questions –
1. do you know if VMWare can import a Parallels install (I’m not looking forward to reinstalling Windows just to try it out).
2. 3d support – does VMWare support Aero and/or DirectX9 apps (like games or Virtual Earth)?

Maybe kinda esoteric questions, but lemme know if you know.

Cheers,
Randy