Virtualization for Macs!
April 12, 2018
Virtualization for Macs!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware Fusion
VMWare Fusion allows Apple users to run a Windows or Linux operating system inside a virtual machine on their Macintosh. As a paid software it is much more stable than Virtualbox in my experience. Fusion is very easy to set up and configure as all VMWare products because VMWare makes their software for the end user.
- Allows users to run Windows only applications on their Mac without switching devices.
- Fusion is excellent for Windows image creation, and works exceptionally well on the Mac environment.
- Assists a Mac user to virtualize Windows apps.
- Excellent for installing Linux distros for penetration testing.
- Windows 10 setup could be slightly more user-friendly
- Price could be cheaper
- Some testing a VMWare on different Mac hardware configurations, because I have had issues with Fusion being sluggish at times.
- Vmware Fusion was a worthwhile investment for the Mac users as it allowed them to perform work using Windows applications
- Myself not being a regular Mac user was able to build Windows images from a loaner machine
- I believe that the ROI was made in a short time, because before Fusion we were using Virtualbox and it never worked right on Macs
I personally have used just about every brand of virtualization software from Virtualbox for Windows, Hyper-v for Windows, KVM for Linux, and VMWare for Windows. Personally my favorite is KVM for Linux because it is lightweight and very fast, but as far as virtual machines go, Fusion is the best Virualization software that I have used for a Mac.