Update to Fusion 3

I don't like Virtualbox anymore, since it trashed my virtual machine probably with this bug.. Which will be fixed in the next update. But I like Sun, their hardware is excellent.

But Virtualbox, well it eats cpu while idle also. I don't mind paying a buck for something stable.

So Parallels 5 or Fusion 3?
I use the xfce version of Ubuntu. Both Parallels and Fusion supports 9.04 of Ubuntu. I have learnt from experience that it is a bad idea to run a more recent OS than what is officially supported.

What is nice with Fusion 3 (vs Fusion 2) is that it now has the vmrun command-line utility. But Parallels also has a command line control.

In the end I decided to go for safety, since I have had a rather trouble-free time with Fusion 2 i will continue with Fusion 3. I haven't tried it, but another advantage might be that VmWare runs on other platforms, such as Linux. I think in theory it should be possible to run a Fusion virtual machine on VmWare server.