Two such software products that offer a solution for virtualization on Apple computers are VMware Fusion and Virtual Box.
VMware Fusion and Virtual Box are two of the leading names in virtualization software for Apple computers today. If you ask most Mac users for their opinion on which virtualization solution is best for running Windows on the Mac, you can expect to hear the names of these two software products as suggestions every now and then. So what exactly is so great about each of them? What are the pros and cons of using VMware Fusion over VirtualBox and vice versa? Is one of them better than the other? In order to find out the answers to all of these questions and more, just keep on reading the next few paragraphs in this article.
What kind of differences are there between VMware Fusion and VirtualBox? Technically, both are one and the same. Both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox are virtualization software products that can be used to run Windows on any compatible computer running Mac OS X. The differences between then can be found in the details.
Virtual Box is a virtualization solution for x86 computers that is more formally known as Oracle VM Virtual Box. Virtual Box is basically a software package that can enable any user to take a Mac and run extra operating systems on top of the already existing host operating system. That is, multiple other operating systems will successfully run through a virtual machine on top of Mac OS X.
And as for VMware Fusion, it is a software-based virtualization solution for Mac computers that is made by VMware. It is made mainly for Apple computers that have Intel-based processors running inside them.
Choosing a virtualization solution that’s right for you between the two choices that have been outlined above isn’t as hard as it looks. If you think that VirtualBox and VMware are identical pieces of software, think again.
Virtual Box is a virtualization solution that you can use not only on Macs but also on PCs as well. That is, it works not just for Apple computers, but for just about every other type of computer you can get your hands on out there. Other than Mac OS X, it also supports Windows XP, Linux, Windows Vista, Solaris, Windows 7, and Open Solaris as host operating systems. It was only recently in the release of version 3.2.0 that it became possible to run a limited virtualization of Mac OS X on Apple-branded computers.
Virtual Box is currently rated as the most popular virtualization solution for computers based on two recent online surveys. It offers both software emulation and hardware emulation as well as a long list of features that keeps expanding with every release version. However, it’s not without limitations, because there are certain features that are only available through the use of an extension pack.
And then there’s VMware Fusion, the Mac-only software product that allows users to run x86 guest operating systems and x86-64 ones as well. It can do much of the same things that Virtual Box can do with the added benefit of being tailor-made for Mac computers. That means there are user-friendly features like Unity View, full DX9 support, PC migration assistant and overall performance optimization.
You can classify VMware Fusion as a specialized type of software that works far better on its target host operating system than any other virtualization solutions out there. So if you really want a good and cost-effective virtualization solution for your Mac, look no further than VMware Fusion.
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