Parallels prompted me for a username and password for Windows, as well as some other up-front info that made the installer experience move a little faster, which is nice since the graphics and UI interaction are kind of bad until the OS boots and the VM tools get installed (as with most VM hypervisors). Especially during the process of installing Windows, everything was very fluid. The fit and finish seems to be a fair bit better, too.
In the Win10 guest, the start menu opens so fast and fluidly that there’s no indication you’re in a VM at all, and most UI interactions are like that. For one, the user experience of the guest is very, very good – near-native for most things you might be doing, like using web browsers, native apps that aren’t graphics intensive, and so on. Generally speaking, Parallels seems to be higher performance, but a bit buggier compared to VMWare Fusion.
PARALLELS VS VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS 10
So, how do they compare right now (August 9, 2018)? I fired up a macOS High Sierra and a Windows 10 guest in each to compare. Those two tend to leapfrog each other every release or couple, so I try to keep up to speed with their relative advantages.
In my experience, VirtualBox is useful for handling easily-portable, low-performance VMs, especially linux, where either VMWare Fusion or Parallels is necessary for heavy lifting and extended GUI interaction. I regularly have at least a couple of go-to Ubuntu VMs for testing, and carry around at least one Windows 10 VM to run Altium Designer.
PARALLELS VS VIRTUALBOX SOFTWARE
Being an electrical engineer who also writes all different kinds of software whose main machine is a Mac, I make pretty extensive use of virtual machines.
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