[MLUG] Parallels vs. VMware Fusion for the Mac?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Sigh...it looks like I really cannot conveniently avoid paying the
Microsoft tax to run the stuff I need for the NIH. But I did avoid
buying a Windows notebook, so I am now trying to figure out which
approach to running XP Pro alongside of Mac OS X will be best. The two
out there are Parallels 3.0 and WMware Fusion.

As far as I can tell, both can (either right now or in a small number
of days) get the job done, and specifically, will allow me to do an XP
Pro set up with Boot Camp (for the shameful moments of my life where I
truly do need to boot into XP) and then use the same installation for
virtualization.  The trick is here that I am going to attempt to set
this up with an OEM/system builder copy of XP Pro, and I need to avoid
the hose of it deciding my hardware set up is different in these two
situations. The work-around here seems to involve having the same MAC
address for networking visible to Windows in both situation, but
correct me if I am wrong.

Does anybody out there have any experience setting this up, preferably
with Leopard?

Thanks in advance.

Jon King

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