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While I don't own Parallels 8 or Fusion 5, I will say that I picked Fusion 4 for one reason: It automatically detects my network connection on the host and uses

While I don't own Parallels 8 or Fusion 5, I will say that I picked Fusion 4 for one reason: It automatically detects my network connection on the host and uses that as the network connection for my VM. It made my life so much easier when I use wired network at work, and wireless network at home. At the time, Parallels did not have this feature so I would have to go edit the settings of the VM and change the network adapter. I do not know if Parallels has this feature now or if they have added it to the old version since I tried it.

weaksauce 14y ago
It does. It's the default adapter setting. I personally like the flexibility of parallels in this regard as I use parallels for dev work and need specific network settings to be remembered. Though, there was a spell in which after a while parallels would kill my wireless connection and there would be no internet on my Mac even though I didn't have a network adapter configured to be used on the virtual machine side. Thankfully they fixed this as it was extremely annoying.