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Discussion on: Parallels, VMWare Fusion, VirtualBox or Another?

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Yurui Zhang

Depends on what you do. I've been using VirtualBox for years and it's pretty good for testing my work in IE.

However I bought Parallels 15 a few weeks ago when it was on sale - I have to say I'm impressed by the integrations - launching windows apps from spotlight, opening files in windows from macOS, sharing files, etc. Overall it's way better & faster than VBox.

I kinda hate their pricing model though.

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Nick Taylor

Mainly for browser testing, but I may do some programming on Windows as well. So far, looks like Parallels. Thanks for the response!

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Patryk

You could always look into online / cloud-based browser testing services. You can integrate those into CI/CD pipelines too, so that's a win.

I don't currently do that myself though, so I can't recommend a specific service.