VMware Fusion

Hi, I'm about to get a MacBook Pro instead of a PC when I change employer soon. It's a more or less 100% PC/Windows environment so I plan to use virtualization to fire up Windows (probably Vista) if/when the need arise (if these is an app I need to run without a Mac equivalent, or if there is a website thar requires IE or something like this). Performance is not the big...

I didn't provide all this information up front because the original question was simply about "gaming" in a virtualized environment, not about how Parallels and VMWare Fusion compare to each other and interact with Mac OS X. ...

On my Parallels 3.0 build 5582, I can drag-and-drop directly into my Parallels Windows VM, and vice-versa (back to the Mac Desktop) without issue. I had to first install the Parallels Tools inside of the Windows VM, but after that, drag-and-drop works perfectly for me. If you use Parallel's "Coherence," then your Windows applications integrate into the Mac OS X...

Generally speaking, if you plan to run one instance of Windows on your mac, I think VMware is better. However, if you need to play around with multiple windows virtual machines then probably Parallels is a better option. ...

I have a MacBook Pro that originally came with 10.4. I've since installed 10.5 on it, but I'd like to access 10.4 virtually on my system. I have VMWare Fusion 1. ...

Best way for me was VMWare Fusion. ...

If you want to run games at their full potential/at all, you will need to run them natively with Bootcamp or a PC. Unfortunately, there's not really any other solutions, as emulators lack speed and compatibility, and there's no Bootcamp alternative.

A word of warning: don't expect to be able to play any games (Half-Life, Counter Strike, etc.) with either Parallels or VMWare Fusion -- they don't do 3D very well. If you're looking to game, you'll either need a Windows PC to do it on, or you'll need to use BootCamp to run Windows natively.

I agree that manually calibrating each screen could give rise to a difference in the image appearance. However, even if I run Windows on the MacBookPro (using VMWare Fusion), the images appear different! The image when viewed using Safari looks exactly as it does using Apple Preview or Photoshop CS3 on the Mac, which is DIFFERENT than it does using any Windows program or...

I'm not sure of hte processor monitors other than the ones already mentioned. Could you post the exact error messages (screenshot will do too) if you can still encounter it, and Fusion logs (your Virtual Machines folder> this vm> right click to "show package contents", in it vmware.log, vmware-0.log etc, and other files it gathers.. easiest probably using from Fusion menus,...