I’ve been using Parallels on my MacBook to run a virtual machine with Windows XP on it. Mostly for my Sony eBook reader software and Family Tree Maker (Mac is lacking when it comes to genealogy software).<\/p>\n
I was reading some reviews of VMware’s new entry to the market, Fusion.<\/p>\n
Fusion has two big advantages over Parallels:<\/p>\n
1) it is written in Cocoa, so is completely native and fast.
\n2) it can use a BootCamp partition as its “virtual” drive.<\/p>\n
So after reading about 10 reviews, all of which said essentially “after trying Fusion, I stopped using Parallels”, I decided to take the plunge and switch my MacBook over.<\/p>\n
It was a straightforward setup:
\n1) install BootCamp
\n2) install Windows XP
\n3) install Fusion<\/p>\n
Although it’s an easy install, it’s time-consuming. I didn’t have time to test out how it compared to Parallels yet. But it *seems* snappier…<\/p>\n
Maybe tonight I will re-install XP on my overly cluttered Dell machine… and after that, maybe I’ll install XP on my cat. Mrrow!
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