![]() The VirtualBox interface can be intimidating, as it shows a lot of technical details and specifications without many tips or descriptions for beginners. The interface looks pretty dated and isn’t as streamlined as other virtual machine software, though VirtualBox has made some improvements that give it more polish. VirtualBox supports a great number of guest operating systems going all the way back to Windows 98, and you can even run your own servers. It’s designed with developers and IT professionals in mind, so VirtualBox provides you with a great deal of control over your virtual environments. Buyer beware, even if it's "free.VirtualBox is a free and open source virtual machine software from Oracle. I guess if you start from scratch it might work. May be just my system, but I cannot recommend VMWare as an alternative to Parallels unless you don't care about your previous images. Unistalled VMWare using AppCleaner, not going back for a third time. Restarted VMWare, pointed to a different VM, this one a Win7 Parallels image, walked away while it was working, came back to find my Mac crashed and rebooted to the login screen. On restart I did First Aid and the boot drive was ok, but it looked like the SMC had been reset (screen brightness, etc., all back to defaults, for example). Had to force shutdown with the power key. No mouse, no trackpad, no keys, no app changing any screen, nothing. It worked at the import for about 20 minutes then the entire MBP froze. Started the import again into VMWare, got the same error, told it to ignore it and go ahead anyway (After all, Win10 was properly closed). Cancelled the import, opened Parallels, opened the image (which was shut down) then shut it down again and then ended Parallels. Complained about the image not being shut down. I let it find the ones I have for Parallels, then started the import of a Win 10 image. It did that, then it showed a screen where I could import previous VMs. Started it up and it asked for a registration key and offered to get one. Installed ok, needed some permissions to access Accessibility (?) and the drives. Logged in, didn't see anything "obvious" but did finally find where to download the installer. I do have an account from when I ran it long ago. ![]() But I wouldn't rely on a VM for games in any event.Ĭlick to expand.Ugh, not impressed. I can vouch for Fusion working very well and stable for my limited needs and while I've played a few older games in it for laughs, they did play well. Whether or not those hold true today, I don't know. That said, my general impression from reading in the past about actual performance was that Parallels was considered to perform better for games, but Fusion was more stable. I haven't used Parallels in a long time, but I have a strong distaste for some of their business practices over the years. As compared to Parallels, my own experience is a bit dated. VB's only advantage was that it was free, and now that's gone. I have absolutely no qualms in saying this beats the pants off VirtualBox in every single way. Unity mode is still there (where you hide the Windows UI and just see your app on the Mac desktop). Access shared folders across the host macOS. It will pause it so I can just resume where I left off. I just gave Fusion 12 Player a quick whirl and functionally, it appears identical to the paid version of 11 that I've been using. I was finally able to get the correct link off the page I posted originally to apply for a free license and did so successfully with my existing account. Alrighty, I had a little trouble with this an hour ago, but it looks like they were simply updating their website or something was down.
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