Better Host Integration Mgmt – Although turning these features off is anything but straightfoward, you have many more levels of integration from folder to MacLook that makes your Windows programs look like Mac programs.Generally you don’t need them, but they’re there when you need them. Configuration Options – It simply has more configuration options.

Serial Ports – To be honest I haven’t gotten the serial port to pipe to work (in about 30 min of trying), but the capabilities are far beyond Fusion, supporting even physical serial ports.I was doing it by habit already so this is a win. Getures – Why can’t Fusion do this? Although I plug in a separate keyboard and mouse, several of my VM’s I use with the naked (so to speak) hardware.Since so much of the performance of the VM is dependent on the virtual hard drive, this puts it way ahead of Fusion especially if you’re running antivirus on your VM. Faster Virtual Disk Access – And this is why it wins for me.That said, I think Parallels wins… read on. The odd thing is how each performed very well in different areas, both singularly excelling in areas that I would consider critical. Since I use my Mac to run Windows to program in Windows and DOS for work, it’s very important to me to select the very best emulator. As everyone else is weighing in with anecdotal evidence so will I.

Parallels versus fusion