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I have Fusion, Parallels and BootCamp. Fusion seems to be a bit more stable than Parallels and will allow me to use up to 2Gb of RAM (Parallels only 1Gb although it should enable more). I can start either virtual machine. I never tried both at once although, sincee I am running two XP installs, it should work.
If you load a full complement of programs into XP using Parallels and Boot Camp then you don't have to do everything over again for Fusion and Boot Camp since either one will select XP through BootCamp.
Mac did tell me that they do not support BootCamp for Tiger anymore so if you have to reload the BootCamp partition (and I do) you will have to upgrade to Leopard (unless you are running it now).
Interestingly you don't have to use BootCamp to get to either virtual machine but if you don't then you will be booting to a different XP installation and will have to load all your programs twice.
Parallels (version 3) lets me scroll the window of my 30" Cinema to display a double size area. VM will only display 1 screen on one monitor. But since Parallels only has 64Mb of virtual VRAM, although I can drag the display over 2 monitors, it really slows down so much that it is useless for two monitors.
I really don't bother with, native, BootCamp since both virtual machines work well enough-Now. If this sounds like a tricky bit of computer sleight of hand-it is. Consider that you will want your printers, USB and DVD to work on the VM and Mac side. So plan to spend a bit for some Guru/IT time as well as a license for the VM or Parallels software and a copy of XP (don't even consider VISTA!).
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