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That's really great! I had to rebuy VMware at work and Parallels at home when Yosemite came out because of the new hypervisor framework modifications that these

That's really great! I had to rebuy VMware at work and Parallels at home when Yosemite came out because of the new hypervisor framework modifications that these two needed under Yosemite (I presume). I don't really use the OSX integration of both systems, other than file mapping/sharing (I run Linux and Windows VMs). Glad to see this, many thanks!

acdha 11y ago
I don't know about Parallels but VMWare Fusion 6 runs just fine on Yosemite – there's almost no reason to upgrade unless you want new icons. That said, I'm completely with you on the value of Hypervisor.framework for people who are e.g. running Linux test instances and not really seeing much benefit from the UI integration but who still want to avoid the performance / stability problems caused by using virtualbox.
- 72deluxe 11y ago
  I had been making do with VMWare Fusion 5, so it truly refused to work on Yosemite. (I also had Parallels 8 at home, which refused to work). Hopefully the upgrades will be only necessary every two years. Stability problems with VirtualBox are very real. I haven't touched that for years.
  - driverdan 11y ago
    > Stability problems with VirtualBox are very real. I haven't touched that for years. What issues do you have? I've been running VirtualBox on OS X for 6+ years and have never had stability issues. I usually have a few VMs running at a time via vagrant.
    - acdha 11y ago
      Until at least a couple of years ago, it was common for it to cause kernel panics if running during a sleep/wake cycle or when exercising the GPU. I used to work with a couple of people who used it and they'd have an unplanned coffee break at least once a week.
    - 72deluxe 11y ago
      Under Snow Leopard (yes it was that long ago) it would frequently kernel panic so I stopped using it. I have never had VMware kernel panic on me; Parallels has crashed once or twice but never kernel panicked. I did use VirtualBox for running Windows 95 the other month though. I am not complaining about VirtualBox or advising against its use, just I had some issues on OSX. Under Windows and Linux it ran fine, just OSX was dodgy for me.
- protomyth 11y ago
  Integration with VSphere was our reason to upgrade to 7.0. Its not a bad upgrade.

acdha 11y ago

I don't know about Parallels but VMWare Fusion 6 runs just fine on Yosemite – there's almost no reason to upgrade unless you want new icons. That said, I'm completely with you on the value of Hypervisor.framework for people who are e.g. running Linux test instances and not really seeing much benefit from the UI integration but who still want to avoid the performance / stability problems caused by using virtualbox.

72deluxe 11y ago
I had been making do with VMWare Fusion 5, so it truly refused to work on Yosemite. (I also had Parallels 8 at home, which refused to work). Hopefully the upgrades will be only necessary every two years. Stability problems with VirtualBox are very real. I haven't touched that for years.
- driverdan 11y ago
  > Stability problems with VirtualBox are very real. I haven't touched that for years. What issues do you have? I've been running VirtualBox on OS X for 6+ years and have never had stability issues. I usually have a few VMs running at a time via vagrant.
  - acdha 11y ago
    Until at least a couple of years ago, it was common for it to cause kernel panics if running during a sleep/wake cycle or when exercising the GPU. I used to work with a couple of people who used it and they'd have an unplanned coffee break at least once a week.
  - 72deluxe 11y ago
    Under Snow Leopard (yes it was that long ago) it would frequently kernel panic so I stopped using it. I have never had VMware kernel panic on me; Parallels has crashed once or twice but never kernel panicked. I did use VirtualBox for running Windows 95 the other month though. I am not complaining about VirtualBox or advising against its use, just I had some issues on OSX. Under Windows and Linux it ran fine, just OSX was dodgy for me.
protomyth 11y ago
Integration with VSphere was our reason to upgrade to 7.0. Its not a bad upgrade.