{"id":1441,"date":"2009-12-09T05:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2009-12-09T05:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T19:25:48","slug":"and-why-ill-stick-to-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/and-why-ill-stick-to-parallels\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;And why I&#8217;ll stick to Parallels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in an earlier post, I mentioned that I&#8217;d been looking at first comparisons between <a title=\"VMware Fusion 3 vs Parallels Desktop 5\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/first-thoughts-vmware-fusion-3-vs-parallels-desktop-v5\/\" target=\"_blank\">VMware Fusion 3.0 and Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac<\/a>, and I thought it was time to follow-up with longer term impressions.<\/p>\n<p>To be blunt, VMware Fusion 3 is unpolished and unpleasant to use on an almost continual basis. I&#8217;ll keep it around for only two reasons: (a) so I can run ESX\/vSphere within a VM for testing purposes, and (b) I can periodically play with the demo\/test images provided by EMC for particular products that <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> convert into Parallels images.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s there to dislike about Fusion?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unity<\/strong>. It&#8217;s like someone at VMware declared &#8220;Make it slow. Make it inefficient. Make it periodically take 10+ seconds to redraw windows. Make it work but glitchy enough that it makes the user grind their teeth in frustration.&#8221; Well, if someone <em>did<\/em> decree that as a product feature, they did a remarkably good job of achieving it. Here&#8217;s a tip, folks at VMware: Buy a copy of Parallels and see how professionals do an integrated windowing feature. Unity in Fusion v3 is worse than Coherence when it was first introduced (which was fine) \u2013 i.e., you have a long, long way to go.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Import another VM<\/strong>. What VM would you like to import? Parallels? Forget it. Why offer to import VMs from Parallels if every VM comes in unusable? (I&#8217;m sure other people must have better experiences than this, but I&#8217;m certainly not impressed.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance<\/strong>. OK, so VMware Fusion performance isn&#8217;t atrocious \u2013 it&#8217;s actually OK. However, I&#8217;d been led to believe that VMware Fusion kicked Parallels Desktop out of the ballpark when it came to performance. I&#8217;ve not seen anything to indicate that it exceeds the performance of Parallels, and so I see that as a negative.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quit<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t pester me, just suspend my VM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I said, I&#8217;ll be keeping Fusion around, but only for those situations where I can&#8217;t use Parallels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in an earlier post, I mentioned that I&#8217;d been looking at first comparisons between VMware Fusion 3.0 and Parallels&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[236,719,1042,1087,1088],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-technology","tag-coherence","tag-parallels","tag-unity","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-fusion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-nf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}