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(In Ubuntu, Parallels continues to show all displays as one large display, while Fusion identifies them separately. All attached displays now appear as separate monitors, just as they do in Fusion. Parallels has improved its support for multiple displays in Windows. But if you must play in your virtual OS, Parallels does a better job of it. Realistically, anyone who is serious about PC gaming will be rebooting via Boot Camp, not trying to play in a virtualizer. If you must use metro-style apps, I strongly recommend using them in windowed mode.įor gaming, Parallels still holds a sizable advantage: It was faster than Fusion in most of the games I tried, and it supports DirectX 10, while Fusion is limited to DirectX 9.0c. This variable behavior happened with both Parallels and Fusion, and neither program handled the job better than the other. Sometimes they remained visible, sometimes they vanished, and sometimes I couldn’t get them to come forward. I didn’t experience any crashes when using apps in the integrated modes, but I was never sure what would happen to a given full-screen metro app when I switched between OS X and Windows applications. But as with last year’s releases, running metro apps in the ‘integrated’ mode of either program (Unity for Fusion Coherence for Parallels) isn’t ideal.
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In the area of the “new” metro-style (Start) apps, things work well as long as you use Windows 8.1 in each app’s windowed mode. If your needs extend beyond the mainstream, though, you should test your specific app(s) with each virtualizer. As I expected, both apps handled traditional Windows applications quite well. I used the public preview of Windows 8.1 for all of my Windows-related testing. For now, if you want to shut down your Fusion OS X virtual machine, do so from within the virtual machine itself.
I pointed out the problem to VMware, which is investigating the situation. When I used the OS X virtual machine’s own Shut Down menu item, though, the virtual machine shut down in just 4 seconds, making Fusion faster than Parallels in this test. In my testing, this approach took 24 seconds-a long time for a shutdown. The only exception involved a long delay in shutting down an OS X virtual machine in Fusion when I used Fusion’s Virtual Machine > Shut Down menu. The figures in the accompanying chart are for my Mac testing, but even allowing for variances in my timing, Fusion’s figures have improved greatly since last year. I stopped the stopwatch when each activity ended, as measured by allowing user input. The iMac ran some typical background apps: Mail, Safari, BBEdit, and Activity Monitor Time Machine was disabled.
Then I averaged the two results to get the results shown here.
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After a full launch-to-shutdown cycle, I quit the app, restarting before the second test. I used the iPhone’s stopwatch to hand-time each item twice. To ensure that I was making fair comparisons, I matched the CPU and memory count of each virtual machine in each virtualization app: two CPUs for all, 1GB of RAM for Ubuntu, 2GB of RAM for OS X, and 4GB of RAM for Windows (due to some game-testing requirements). On each of my Macs, I created three virtual machines for both Parallels and Fusion: Ubuntu (a Linux variant) 12.04 LTS, Windows 8.1 public preview, and OS X 10.8.5. This is mildly annoying because you then have to manually delete the spurious virtual machines from the list. vmc extension-the scan turned up three Vue 9 macro files on my iMac and labeled them virtual machines. In my case, the list included anything with a. The resulting list includes any files that Parallels deems to be potentially usable virtual machines. Parallels does an odd thing when it first launches: It scans your drive for other virtual machines, and lists them in its virtual-machine library window. But there are no direct links for downloading and installing virtual machines it’s up to the user to find appropriate sources.
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The main screen shows only two options (install from disc image, and import a real PC) a More Options button includes the ability to install from the OS X recovery partition, along with some other options.
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The Parallels setup screen makes it a snap to create a virtual machine and to download the required software for Windows 8.1 Preview, Chrome OS, and more.įusion can do all of these things, too, but its wizard is less granular.
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It includes links for downloading and installing the Windows 8.1 preview, Chrome OS, Ubuntu, and Android operating systems, and for using the recovery partition to install OS X. The Parallels Wizard screen lets you use a DVD or image file to install an OS, or (alternatively) migrate from a real PC. Both Fusion and Parallels make creating new virtual machines very easy, though finding and/or buying the virtual machines you’d like to create is simpler with Parallels.
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