Re: Parallels or vmware

Iain Day wrote:
I realise this has been discussed previously, but its a fast moving target. What are everyone's current thoughts on parallels or vmware. I've just started a new job, and have a MacPro on which I want to virtualise linux [1]. We have some instrument control software which only runs on linux and I want to run test versions before I deploy to the instruments.

What is linux support like in Parallels these days? A few months ago, I got the impression that parallels was better for Windows and vmware won for linux support. Is this still the case?


VMware Fusion seems to be better for Linux, and it's the only game in town if you want to run 64-bit Linux.

Paul
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