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From:Smith Micro Software Inc.
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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Very impressed so far, 2007-12-08
I haven't tried Parallels so I don't have a lot to compare this with, but I bought this over Parallel's because of VMware's excellent reputation in virtualization and its' strong support for other operating systems in addition to Windows. So far I'm impressed.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
It's virtuallty fabulous, 2007-12-07
I've used Parallels extensively and wanted to be frugal in spending for virtualization on my Quad-core Mac Pro at home. I am reviewing VMWare products as a hypervisor for use at work, replacing 3 servers, so I decided to try it at home. It's great! I find it easy to use, Wizards or no, and the performance hit on my Mac pro is nil. I thought I'd run 2 or 3 VMs leaving cores for non-virtual use, but I don't have to. I've had 6 VMs running and I can still mess with Photoshop and other CPU intensive apps, while my virtual servers are chugging away. Parallels is good, but it didn't handle the this kind of load as gracefully.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Works great so far!, 2007-12-04
I am using Fusion on a newer Macbook running Leopard with 2 gigs of ram. Using Windows XP Pro and it is running flawlessly. Using it to connect to a VPN to get to work and it is faster than my PC at work! Running MS Office, Lotus Notes, other IBM software.
Josh
Simple, 2007-12-03
Fusion was easy to install and worked without any problem. I installed the full version of Microsoft XP Home Edition and it works fine.
2 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Beware if you have existing Boot Camp installation!, 2007-12-03
I have an existing Boot Camp installation and installed the VM Ware Fusion product to get around having to re-boot everytime I wanted to use the single Windows app I need to access.
The VM Ware product created a new 'virtual machine' which to the existing MS install is a 'new hardware' configuration so I had to 'activate' Vista again - this came to light after Vista 'locked' the OS which meant I had to call in to activate the product. It took me several hours of phone calls to MS as well as having to re-install the VM Ware product to get this resolved.
Long story short, the VM Ware product did not play nice at all with the existing Boot Camp install of MS Vista and their Tech Support was very slow (each response took over a day). They were not much help.
I do not recommend this product if you have an existing Boot Camp install. It may be fine if you're installing a brand new copy of Windows - you won't be tortured by the MS activatio process.
It seems that they could engineer their software to work around this - or even document this somehow - but that is not the case. I searched their documentation and the company's website and found no information or instructions on how to deal with this situation.
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