Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion? [closed]

"For the needs described in the article, I'd probably go with VMware Fusion. It does a really nice job of bringing Mac and Windows together, especially with the ""Unity View"" feature. (Granted, I haven't tried Parallels or VirtualBox, but I have the impression they're not quite as good in this.) So do evaluate it to see if it fulfills your needs well enough - and if it does, I think the price of $79.99 is tolerable.

However, for my own Windows using needs, I'm currently sticking with plain old Boot Camp. That's because Civilization 4 doesn't really work as smoothly under VMware Fusion. I'd guess this is true for other 3D heavy games too. (Now it's much better than before though - although this might be simply because now I'm using a Mac with nVidia GeForce 9400M as opposed to one with integrated Intel GMA X3100.) Booting back and forth between Mac and Windows admittedly is a pain though."

"I've had much luck with Fusion over Parallels. Across many Macs including a various desktop and laptop configurations, my company has all moved to Fusion (much needed since we have Windows users as well).

Most of us have a BootCamp setup (best for TF2, Civ4 among other things) and set up other VMs to work with on external drives. Best of both worlds. I highly recommend having a simple BootCamp setup for those times when you just really need Windows.

edit-- Almost forgot to add. The only issue I've had with Fusion have been issues with Cisco VPNs. That should be resolved now though."

I use VirtualBox for school jobs, because it's free for sure but also because you have some functions like the integrated virtual machine which 'mix' the desktop of host and virtual machine.

Since VirtualBox is free, do your proof of concept with it and then move to VMware Fusion.

"Even though I seem to be the only one: I prefer Parallels.

I use Fusion at work and Parallels at home. And while my work Mac Mini is much faster than my old MacBook, Parallels feels much more fluent and responsive to me. Also I find the interface of Parallels more intuitive."