6:14 PM - VMWare Fusion 3 review
I purchased a copy of VMWare Fusion 3 for my iMac today. In the past, I've used Parallels for intel Macs. While there are a few features I miss, I must say that VMWare is quite fast. I haven't found a way to run concurrent VMs like Parallels can do, but I don't use that feature often anyway.
I have not tested it with Windows yet. Most people use it for accessing their bootcamp partition or running Windows applications. I use it to test MidnightBSD software and to work on ports. I have a real PC for windows.
The updater is nice and it has tools for Windows, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. I can't get the FreeBSD tools to install under MidnightBSD. There are many levels of OS version checks and I'm missing one somewhere. X.org worked perfectly under MidnightBSD 0.1.1 i386. I'm updating to current now.
The networking code works really well. It seems much more stable so far. I'm running on Snow Leopard.
I've had mixed feelings about VMWare products in the past. The windows versions have caused BSODs on me. Recent versions of VMWare player have been a lot more stable and based on that I decided to give it a shot for my Mac. I've also used quite a few of their free products over the years. Lastly, I found that Parallels hasn't been innovating much and also not putting enough testing time into other OSes.