VMware Fusion 3 supercharged for Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard The latest release of VMware ’s top-notch virtualization software ” Fusion ” has been announced and some of the new features are definitely worth taking a look. For the uninitiated, virtualization is the act of simulating a guest operating system while running a host operating system. Put simply, it allows you to run Windows without having to reboot. VMware Fusion 3 features highly improved Snow Leopard support. Mio Navman Spirit V505

I have 2 Macs and a Hackintosh (MBP early 2008 with 4GB and 128GB SSD, Mac Mini 2006 upgraded to C2D 2.13 with 2GB and WD Scorpio Black 320GB 7200, and the Hackintosh is a C2Q 9550@3.5 GHz with 8GB, ATI 4850HD, and RAID10), so I pretty much cover the entire performance spectrum. Also note that every one of my processors support Intel VTx extension, so that probably helps me out with performance with virtualization (most Apple Intel-based machines support VTx). I've been using VMWare, VirtualBox, and Parallels on different machines, and here's my impressions -

Parallels 1, 2, and 3 - Windows XP ran at 75% of what it would in BootCamp, Windows Vista crawled. Didn't like the Mini too much, as it wouldn't run half the time.

Parallels 4 - Faster, but likes to crash and take down OS X at the same time. Didn't run on the Hackintosh at all under 10.5.8, but did under 10.6.

VMWare 1 - Sucked.

VMWare 2 - Fast... literally 90% as fast with all but graphics. 720p content would play in Windows Media, but other video formats had problems above CIF (352x288) resolution. However, a BSOD in Vista or Win7 would take the entire system down.

VMWare 3 - Faster than VMWare 2 (ETQW is even playable on the Hackintosh and MBP), but virtual machines take forever to restore from suspend no matter what kind of drive setup you have. Snow Leopard gives a noticeable boost in graphics with the MBP but not as much with the Hackintosh (possibly due to optimizations for nVidia).

VirtualBox - Great for emulating legacy OS platforms (DOS, Windows 9x/NT4, older versions of Linux and UNIX), but seems to chug in Windows 2K, XP, Vista, and 7.

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Hi,
I am happy with my virtual box. Thanks for this information.


chinesische medizin

It’s really amazing that CrossOver has evolved into such a robust product. I finally moved to the slightly-less-crappy Windows version of QuickBooks, so maybe I’ll switch to using it in CrossOver, instead of dealing with XP.

handy zubehor

Interesting topic. I'm using Parallels on my MBP from Spring 2009. And try running Adobe CS4 on it. Although it was sold to me as 'maybe even quicker on the Mac than on PC' is works in fact on app 10% of the speed I was used to on my 2007 Dell PC (coming from a PC background appearently, and trying not to throw away the expensive CS4 license, just from Jan 2009.

Here are my questions:

1) I use paralells really parallel (so not reboot), does this cause the mega slow down? I really hate to be rebooting all the time you just want to copy-paste something from mail of whatever from my OS-X space.

2) Is VMWF3 a whole lot faster (I need app 500% perfomanceboost over my current Parallels 4 performance?

3) Is there a simple way to 'migrate' my virtual XP setup from Parallels to VMWF3?

Thanks for your thoughts!
Stefan (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

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Thanks for posting.
Gadgets

like VMF2, runs XP just fine on Leopard. As of right now I have no intent on upgrading to 10.6 until some other programs I run update to support it. I probably won't upgrade to VMF3 until then too. keep posting.

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I like VMF2, runs XP just fine on Leopard. As of right now I have no intent on upgrading to 10.6 until some other programs I run update to support it. I probably won't upgrade to VMF3 until then too.

I would purchase ASAP if you told me there was side-to-side scrolling support though. (Update the damn driver VMWare, you bastards :)