Parallels vs vmware vs virtualbox vs bootcamp

#Parallels vs vmware vs virtualbox vs bootcamp professional#

Yes, VMware Fusion is a commercial app, not free. I never tried VirtualBox because I use my 'Bootcamp' drive virtually in macOS and, as far as I know, VirtualBox isn't capable of this, at least not easily. Does anyone have a way of being able to switch between Bootcamp, parallels and VMWare in any order without this reactivation issue? pastrychef said: That's good to know about Parallels. I appreciate that this is much a problem for PArallels as VMWare. Likewise if I am in a stable state of switching between VWare and Bootcamp, and I then run Parallels, I have to activate again. This has already caused me to fall foul of XPs activation and have to go through the 'Activate via telephone' dance. Start the Windows Bootcamp VM from Parallels and copy the WindowsSupport.

#Parallels vs vmware vs virtualbox vs bootcamp professional#

I have been looking mainly at said programs in the title, and wanted to get you guy's professional opinions beforehand. Trying to migrate 4 VMs from 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server to a mixed vSphere 6/6. The problem that I am having is that although I can switch between VMWare and Paralles without XP asking to be reactivated, as soon as I run VMWare again, all three environments ask to be reactivated when next launched. BootCamp Lately I have been wanting to change things up a bit and load on Windows onto my Mac. I imagine that if I did buy VMWare, I would still use Parallels (and Bootcamp directly) regularly. I am testing Fusion as there are some things it does better than parallels, so I am thinking about buying it (I already bought Parallels). I have a Bootcamp XP installation that I have been using with Parallels happily for a while.