Platform Peace

WebWorkerDaily writes up a nice comparison of VMWare Fusion 2 and Parallels Desktop.

A comparison of Parallels Desktop 4 and VMWare Fustion 2 from theAppleBlog.

I haven’t actually tried Boot Camp for a few reasons:

I like the idea of running Windows and OSX side-by-side* AND I don’t have enough hard drive space (I run all my VMs off an external drive) AND I haven’t rebuilt my Mac in a long time to free up enough space

Yes, I am aware VMWare Fusion has [...]

Nice example and video about using the VMware Fusion 2.0 Keyboard Mapping feature. VMWare Fusion 2.0 is a huge improvement over 1.0 - highly recommended.

Looks like I’ll have to wait on the VMWare Fusion 1.1 upgrade.

Just some things I noticed online today. First Leopard Update released.  Here is the fix list. Quicksilver top 10 plugins. Use rsync to emulate Time Machine VMWare Fusion 1.1 released.  Release notes here.

One problem I ran into with my new Time Machine setup was that my large virtual machine disk files were aggressively being backed every time they changed.  Since each virtual machine is extremely large (multiple GBs each) and since Time Machine backs up an entire file each time it changes, I was quickly eating up [...]

So, what virtualization software should you use to run Windows simultaneously on Mac OS X?  Well, the good news is that the two primary choices, Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion, are both excellent options and the choice really just comes down to personal preference and your intended usage. There are several reviews and comparisons [...]