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Originally Posted by mischievious
Like I already said nice guide for the average user.
I haven't been on for some time, saw your post and since virtualisation has a special place in my heart thought that I might add a bit of depth for anyone that may like something extra.
I just didn't agree that VMware is far superior to products like VirtualBox generally. VirtualBox runs on windows as well and they both have their strengths and weaknesses.
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I tried VirtualBox on a Mac before settling on VMWare fusion. We have an ESXi cluster at work, so I am well aware of the pros and cons of that (it doesn't like any thing particularly graphics intensive for instance). The ESXi cluster, incidentally, supports 100 Virtual Machines accessed by RDP (which is why it doesn't like graphically intensive stuff).
Anyhow, I found VirtualBox to be a perfectly capable product. A little rough around the edges (3d support did not work well on OSX and it didn't integrate well with the host OS). It also did not support using Bootcamp drives directly (which would have meant had I used it for what I need it for, I'd have needed two installations of Windows). Fusion has none of those flaws. It integrates with OSX well, can use bootcamp drives (with some documented mucking around with activation, as Windows picks up the Fusion VM as a new machine).
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Originally Posted by zing
Checking your stats the last time you visited was October 3 months after I poted the guide
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In fairness Zing, that doesn't mean he read your guide at that point.