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Since I'm not familiar with VMWare, and because I think Parallels' solution won't be the only option for long, what are these adantages you mentioned?


Snapshot trees, for one. The ability to simply "resume" a virtual machine from some arbitrary saved state is priceless. Want to try out some new s/w? Snapshot the machine, download and install the new stuff, try it out -- oops spyware-ridden or just plain not suitable? Hit "revert" and it's all gone. Magic. Or, okay it's nice, then just suspend the machine there, take a snapshot of it to go back to someday, and then click on the previous snapshot to run other stuff on a separate branch. And so on. Huge feature set there.

Virtual networks and "teams" of VMs. start with one good VM. Clone it into three or four, and set up virtual network LANs between them in various combinations to test server scenarios (or just to partition real servers).

Resizeable desktops, autofit / fitnow for resolutions.

Plug and play USB devices in the VMs -- any physical USB device can be moved to/from the VM and host O/S. I have used this for a zillion things. EDIT: Eg. for the LogicPort analyser gizmo, who's software requires MS-Win.

Virtual memory, multi-CPUs per VM, etc..

All of the packages will eventually all do this stuff, but VMware has been doing it all for a long time on regular PC (Linux/Win) systems, so one would expect them to offer it for the Mac shortly.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (19/04/2006 20:09)