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[Sneaky Snake]

Just wondering which virtualization software people are using and how happy they are with it. I'm currently using VMware Fusion 8.5 and I was happy with it on my old 2011 quad core 15" MBP, but it doesn't seem to run very well on my new 2015 13" rMBP with a Windows 10 VM.

I am especially interested to hear if anyone is using the Veertu to power a Windows virtual machine. It uses OS X's built-in hypervisor instead of a custom solution like VMware or Parallels.

[Camper-Hunter]

Last version I used was VMware 8.0. It worked well for Windows 7 and some Linux based Cisco virtual appliances (on my seriously upgraded Mac Pro 2009). That's wierd that Fusion ran better on your 5 years old Mac than on the new one! Does it have enough RAM for OS X + the Windows guest?

[macdude22]

Sneaky Snake, on 26 October 2016 - 01:38 PM, said:

Just wondering which virtualization software people are using and how happy they are with it. I'm currently using VMware Fusion 8.5 and I was happy with it on my old 2011 quad core 15" MBP, but it doesn't seem to run very well on my new 2015 13" rMBP with a Windows 10 VM.

I am especially interested to hear if anyone is using the Veertu to power a Windows virtual machine. It uses OS X's built-in hypervisor instead of a custom solution like VMware or Parallels.

Veertu works well, and its great to not have to install any kernel extensions but it has constraints. Previously Apple's hypervisor doesn't support bridged networking which I need. I see now veertu on 10.12's hypervisor does. I will have to revisit.

I use Fusion and generally don't have any issues, I do the majority of my devops in VMs so bridged networking is a stickler for me which Veertu previously was unable to support.

I am slightly less excited since I see now bridged networking is only supported outside of the app store and apple didn't actually add this to the hypervisor. But will still be taking another look.

https://veertu.com/u...orking-support/

[Frost]

Using the latest version of VMWare Fusion on Sierra with Windows 10 Pro Anniversary on the MBP in my signature. Works great, does what Parallels used to do before they gimped it unless you pay them a yearly ransom, no complaints.

[Sneaky Snake]

Frost how much resources did you give the VM?

[MichalM.Mac]

VMware Fusion 8.5 Pro for MacOS, Linux and single Win8 vms.

[Frost]

Sneaky Snake, on 27 October 2016 - 09:38 AM, said:

Frost how much resources did you give the VM?

4 cores, 8192 MB of RAM. Runs pretty much full speed, and I have it set up to swap to Windows with a three finger swipe left, and back to the right to Mac OS. I have it running off my Bootcamp partition.

[macdude22]

I haven't had any issues but I always see performance issues posted on the vmware forums ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . My work driver is a 2012 mini (i7) 16GB Ram, 1TB Fusion drive.

[Frost]

macdude22, on 28 October 2016 - 04:38 PM, said:

I haven't had any issues but I always see performance issues posted on the vmware forums ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Such as IPB having formatting errors.

[macdude22]

Frost, on 28 October 2016 - 05:00 PM, said:

Such as IPB having formatting errors.

Rurlly mutilated that ascii shrug there.

[the Battle Cat]

macdude22, on 28 October 2016 - 09:37 PM, said:

Rurlly mutilated that ascii shrug there.

No.  No.  It's actually quite accurately depicted your nerdy tech brain.  If you bashed my head open candy corn would pour out.

[mindnoise]

Long term Parallels user here. Basically I am satified, for what I use I had barely problems,
only some light software and old XP- Games.

But since Parallels switched to try to shove yearly subscription down your throat, I think V11 will be my last business with them.
Though they have been nice and released a Sierra compatible update for 11 (12 is current), I'll give them that.

[DirtyHarry50]

My experience is a little out of date but I've run both Parallels and VMware and preferred VMware overall, particularly in light of Parallels business practices which was what prompted my trial of VMware. Ultimately though I just gave up on the expense and I run Windows 10 on my iMac most of the time now.

For any kind of low demand gaming and other uses I'd recommend VMware personally. I found it to work really well and it was every bit as fast if not faster than Parallels.

In the Windows world I plan to try out VirtualBox just to run a Linux VM in Windows 10 which should be fine as there's no need for any gaming support in that situation and the price is certainly right. I just haven't had any time to monkey around with that yet.

[Camper-Hunter]

DirtyHarry50, on 01 November 2016 - 09:05 PM, said:

In the Windows world I plan to try out VirtualBox just to run a Linux VM in Windows 10 which should be fine as there's no need for any gaming support in that situation and the price is certainly right.

VMware Workstation Player (on Windows) is free for home use, too. And you can actually create VMs, it's not merely a player. Though it has less features than the paid versions, obviously (things like snapshots, for instance).

[DirtyHarry50]

Camper-Hunter, on 02 November 2016 - 02:51 PM, said:

VMware Workstation Player (on Windows) is free for home use, too. And you can actually create VMs, it's not merely a player. Though it has less features than the paid versions, obviously (things like snapshots, for instance).

That's great. Thanks very much for pointing that out. I'll try that first then.