hey mac nerds! virtualization?

[rmd]

Is either parallels or vmware fusion worth the $$ over free solutions like virtualbox? I don't *think* I'm going to want particularly graphics=heavy things like games, and it looks like graphics is the thing that parallels excels at, so I don't think I need parallels. VMWare fusion looks slicker than virtualbox, but I don't know if it's $60 slicker.

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[dfjdejulio.livejournal.com]

The main downside of this method that I can see is, if you use a purely virtual machine instead of a partition, you can do "sparse allocation" of the disk. You can over-allocate, and it'll only actually *use* disk space when the guest OS fills it up. With a partition, you must obviously allocate all the space ahead of time.

(You may reasonably not like overallocating scarce resources anyway. It can lead to problems down the line, sure.)

Another downside is that you can't really migrate the VM from host to host, which I do sometimes with other VMs.