DENDE O  1.7.1 not working on the latest Snow Leopard Build  
(Version 1.7.1)

DENDE O  As a very early adopter of virtualization in the corporate world (running Vmware's Virtual Infrastructure product) and being very impressed by it, I never bothered to really try Parallels, I went straight for VMware Fusion on my late 2007 MBP, it ran great with no problems, and I loved it. On my early 2009 MBP with 4Gb and a speedy 7200 rpm drive Fusion still ran great. However, Im in the Technology R&D profession, and I find the best way to evaluate any product it to use it in your day to day life, and thats what I did when I tried Virtual Box.

I made a copy of my VMware Fusion's vmdk and converted my windows XP VM to virtualbox and ran it for a number of weeks. The speed difference between virutalbox and fusion was immediately clear. Virtualbox ran circles around Fusion in performance. Fusion was always a very stabled product and so is virtualbox, (though in some early iderations of vb things werent quite as stabled as they are now), I am also amazed how much lighter the vb footprint is on my system. When I ran fusion, I would only start fusion up when I wanted to exclusively use windowsXP because I knew all my other mac sessions would perform poorly...and I can just about forget about launching photoshop and bridge together. With Virtualbox, I start windows and leave it running in a different space (on leopard) and sometimes forget its running. When I close the cover of my mpb, virtualbox automatically sleep the vm and wake it back up when I open the lid.

I am still a very big advocate for VMware in the corporate world, but for all my home users there is no better virtualization product than Virtualbox  
(Version 2.2)

DENDE O  As a very early adopter of virtualization in the corporate world (running Vmware's Virtual Infrastructure product) and being very impressed by it, I never bothered to really try Parallels, I went straight for VMware Fusion on my late 2007 MBP, it ran great with no problems, and I loved it. On my early 2009 MBP with 4Gb and a speedy 7200 rpm drive Fusion still ran great. However, Im in the Technology R&D profession, and I find the best way to evaluate any product it to use it in your day to day life, and thats what I did when I tried Virtual Box.

I made a copy of my VMware Fusion's vmdk and converted my windows XP VM to virtualbox and ran it for a number of weeks. The speed difference between virutalbox and fusion was immediately clear. Virtualbox ran circles around Fusion in performance. Fusion was always a very stabled product and so is virtualbox, (though in some early iderations of vb things werent quite as stabled as they are now), I am also amazed how much lighter the vb footprint is on my system. When I ran fusion, I would only start fusion up when I wanted to exclusively use windowsXP because I knew all my other mac sessions would perform poorly...and I can just about forget about launching photoshop and bridge together. With Virtualbox, I start windows and leave it running in a different space (on leopard) and sometimes forget its running. When I close the cover of my mpb, virtualbox automatically sleep the vm and wake it back up when I open the lid.

I am still a very big advocate for VMware in the corporate world, but for all my home users there is no better virtualization product than Virtualbox  
(Version 2.2)

DENDE O  As a very early adopter of virtualization in the corporate world (running Vmware's Virtual Infrastructure product) and being very impressed by it, I never bothered to really try Parallels, I went straight for VMware Fusion on my late 2007 MBP, it ran great with no problems, and I loved it. On my early 2009 MBP with 4Gb and a speedy 7200 rpm drive Fusion still ran great. However, Im in the Technology R&D profession, and I find the best way to evaluate any product it to use it in your day to day life, and thats what I did when I tried Virtual Box.

I made a copy of my VMware Fusion's vmdk and converted my windows XP VM to virtualbox and ran it for a number of weeks. The speed difference between virutalbox and fusion was immediately clear. Virtualbox ran circles around Fusion in performance. Fusion was always a very stabled product and so is virtualbox, (though in some early iderations of vb things werent quite as stabled as they are now), I am also amazed how much lighter the vb footprint is on my system. When I ran fusion, I would only start fusion up when I wanted to exclusively use windowsXP because I knew all my other mac sessions would perform poorly...and I can just about forget about launching photoshop and bridge together. With Virtualbox, I start windows and leave it running in a different space (on leopard) and sometimes forget its running. When I close the cover of my mpb, virtualbox automatically sleep the vm and wake it back up when I open the lid.

I know this is suppose to be a Fusion review section, but I just wanted you guys to be aware of another product, thats FREE and faster than fusion. I am still a very big advocate for VMware in the corporate world, but for all my home users there is no better virtualization product than Virtualbox  
(Version 2.0.4)