+ Support for DirectX 8.1 inside a virtual machine ( video). + Run your Windows apps as Mac apps with Unity ( video). then use macdrive to keep your data in sync between multiable systems. + You can partition with Boot Camp, and then run Vmware Fusion off of the Boot Camp Partition. + Run multiple Fusion environments at once or assign multiple processors + USB 2.0 and most USB devices, CD/DVD drive support
The following video shows Windows Vista Ultimate on MAC OS 10.4.8 with VMWARE FUSION Designed from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion allows you to run Mac and Windows applications side-by-side – quickly and effortlessly sharing information between the two operating systems’ environments.
VMware Fusion let's you run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Solaris, on your Macintosh at the same time as Mac OS X – without rebooting. + runs Linux and Windows (including Vista) + You can easily create and run guest operating systems with Qcontrol. + Performance meter which shows the harddisk, CPU and CD-Rom activity. Here is a Hak5 video review of Q running multiple OS's on a PPC. A completely rewritten cocoa port of QEMU, built directly on OS X, making use of Apples Core-technologies like Coreimage, Coreaudio and OpenGL for in- and output, saving the overhead of crossplattform APIs like SDL, FMOD or GTK. Parallels could be classified as something of a hybrid solution as they use Wine libs for their 3D acceleration. This does not have to mean official support from CodeWeavers, as their are a large number of unsupported applications and games that work at this time but their not officially supported, in the end it comes down to does CrossOver run the applications and games that I have and need? And the best thing about going with a CrossOver solution is your not sending a single cent to sunny Redmond and your helping fund further Wine support.
If your looking at a pure emulation solution their is only Wine and CrossOver Mac, Wine is free and open source but what its not is user friendly! In my opinion CrossOver is a good choice if it supports the applications or games that you use on a daily basis. So until the fine folks at Apple Inc change their minds about virtualization xen is going to be out of the question.īut this solution isnt without its problems, their would still be the intigration problems and you would require a windows license. In my opinion the best virtualization solution would be xen but if you read the EULA in OS X it forbids virtualization. no not really, so I thought I would dig around and see what solutions were available at this time to run Windows applications on a x86 Mac. The first thing I ask him was, is their a equivalent native application that will do the job for you? As I have always believed native applications and games are always the best solution in the end. A good friend asked me a couple days back what I thought was the best solution when it comes to running Windows applications on his new X86 Mac.