Promising but a work in progress

Veertu has the potential to be a worthy competitor to VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop. It’s speedy, booting up significantly faster than Parallels Desktop 11 in my tests, and seems snappier in operation. Not having all the “integration” between desktops allows Veertu to be much cleaner and smaller, though users who really want that Windows Desktop/Finder integration will want to steer to VMWare or Parallels.

Veertu still has some rather serious glitches to iron out, though, particularly in the file sharing between a VM (at least a WIndows 10 virtual machine) and the Mac side, said file sharing being iffy and rather fragile, often disallowing access or not appearing at all. And with no demo/trial version that doesn’t limit you to using only their download version of a Linux VM, it makes it difficult to really evaluate the product. The company needs to consider providing a fully-functional time-limited demo downloadable from their web site that allows a prospective purchaser to try the software with a Windows ISO whch is what most Mac users probably want.

Overall, it’s off to a promising start. Time will tell how it progresses.

UPDATE: Still problems with being able to retain file sharing with the Mac, which remains fragile and fails or even disappears regularly. Veertu VMs running Windows also do not work well in Active Directory environments; you can bind a VM to the domain and use a domain login, but you cannot connect to servers or other file shares regardless of the network settings (Shared or Host) though the network is active (web surfing works properly). In addition, performance seems to be degrading, though I don’t have any objective testing to prove it at this point. So this may be a solution for those with very simple needs to run basic Windows, but is not yet a solution for advanced users.

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