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Stefan Patric
Flightless Bird
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:58:17 -0500, Mike Rosenberg wrote:
> Stefan Patric <not@this.address.com> wrote:
>
>> VirtualBox is the easiest VM to set up and work with, and for personal
>> use, it's free.
>>
>> http://www.virtualbox.org
>
> The price is definitely right, but how is it easier than Fusion or
> Parallels?
Perhaps it isn't anymore. They all have GUI interfaces now.
It has been about 4 years since I last seriously looked at VMWare. At
that time, VMWare--I don't even think they had a Mac version then--was a
very stable, for pay, commercial product designed for running multiple
virtual server servers, although you could run it on a desktop, and
people did. (There is now a free one for non-commercial users, but only
for PC platforms. I hear it's very good.)
Set up was technical--you had to know what you were doing--but was at
least through a GUI and a lot easier than the commandline VM I was using
then. Then I discovered VirtualBox. Its market was for the general
desktop computer user like me who wanted an alternative to multi-booting
OSes. It still basically is that, although they do have a "pro" version
that they sell.
Since VirtualBox is free, even for the Mac, and is designed for the
casual user, wouldn't it pay to try it before buying one?
Have no experience with Parallels.
Stef
> Stefan Patric <not@this.address.com> wrote:
>
>> VirtualBox is the easiest VM to set up and work with, and for personal
>> use, it's free.
>>
>> http://www.virtualbox.org
>
> The price is definitely right, but how is it easier than Fusion or
> Parallels?
Perhaps it isn't anymore. They all have GUI interfaces now.
It has been about 4 years since I last seriously looked at VMWare. At
that time, VMWare--I don't even think they had a Mac version then--was a
very stable, for pay, commercial product designed for running multiple
virtual server servers, although you could run it on a desktop, and
people did. (There is now a free one for non-commercial users, but only
for PC platforms. I hear it's very good.)
Set up was technical--you had to know what you were doing--but was at
least through a GUI and a lot easier than the commandline VM I was using
then. Then I discovered VirtualBox. Its market was for the general
desktop computer user like me who wanted an alternative to multi-booting
OSes. It still basically is that, although they do have a "pro" version
that they sell.
Since VirtualBox is free, even for the Mac, and is designed for the
casual user, wouldn't it pay to try it before buying one?
Have no experience with Parallels.
Stef