Thanks for this, rcardona2k. I'm happy to have supported the development of Parallels with a paid license---just as I'm happy to have supported Crossover Office with the same. If VMWare turns out to have valuable advantages for me, I might get that, too. But at this point, I'm quite happy with Parallels and Crossover and see no need for the third.
If I were a heavy Linux VM user I'd probably share the frustration people have. But what I've done, and what I recommend other people consider, is to install your Linux distros as application servers with a text-based console---then display all your apps on the Mac desktop using X11 piped over a host-only network. It's effectively equivalent to Coherence mode. YMMV, but for my use it's entirely sufficient, and I do not miss mouse synchronization.
Last edited: Dec 22, 2006