Parallels vs virtualbox for mac

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Importing settings from a PC is easier in Parallelsĭual screen support in VMWare either doesn’t work or doesn’t work very well

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Printers (network printers) not being picked up too well in some cases I do know that some people have problems with VMWare, most comments I hear relate to: Should I need support, VMWare’s should be better than Parallels’ VMWare’s 3D support actually works, while I couldn’t get Parallels to work (or maybe it did, but not as well as VMWare’s) Unity treats each Windows application as an individual entity (try to use Exposé with both to see what I mean), while Parallels just puts them all on one canvas with a transparent background VMWare’s Unity is implemented better than Parallels’ Coherence, i.e. VMWare feels a lot faster to me, both when running Windows and Linux The extra network adapters Parallels creates gave me problems with certain applications and networking in Parallels didn’t seem to work very well VMWare doesn’t create extra network adapters. VMWare’s codebase is known to be cleaner than Parallels’ You’re going to get mixed reaction to this, but I prefer VMWare for a couple of reasons: