Goodbye Parallels!
I used to use Parallels 3.0 for creating virtual machines on my Mac. It worked pretty well when I needed to boot up Windows XP to test site compatibility with Internet Explorer. I never bothered to upgrade to 4.0, even when I couldn’t create a VM for Ubuntu 9.04 using 3.0. After becoming frustrated with that, I tried out VirtualBox, an open source VM manager from Sun. Although not as full featured as Parallels, the installation of Ubuntu was painless and works great. I continued to use Parallels for Windows and VirtualBox for Ubuntu…that is until today when I learned Parallels 3.0 is not compatible with Snow Leopard!!! I’m going to try out VMWare Fusion 3.0 which was just released this week and looks promising. It even allows you to import existing Parallels instances.