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How Lawyers Practice Law and Serve Clients with Macs -- Really!
The Mac Lawyer — ...   or VMWare’s Fusion to run a Windows program in a separate window at the same time that you are running the Macintosh operating system. For many, this is the key selling point, because by purchasing a Mac plus a copy of Windows and perhaps also Parallels or Fusion, you essentially get two computers (a Mac and a PC) for barely more than the price of one. ...

MacVoices #8125: Peter Kazanjy Discusses the New Features of VMware Fusion 2
MacVoices — ... In a bonus-length interview, Pete Kazanjy of VMware discusses the newest edition of their virtualization software, ...

Remove Fusion 2 Windows apps from Open With menu
MacOSXHints.com — One of the new features in Fusion 2 is the ability to have your Windows' applications appear in OS X's Open With contextual menu. This feature is disabled by default, but there's a slight issue if you turn it on (say for testing during a review :) ), and then disable it again: the programs will still be listed in the Open With menu in OS X, even after a restart. ...

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a Mac
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... like Ubuntu, more and more individuals are at least giving Linux a try. Today, Canonical made both the server and desktop versions of Ubuntu 8.10 (codenamed 'Intrepid Ibex') available for download. Even before the Intel switch, PPC users could effectively run Linux distros on their machines, but virtualization coupled with Intel hardware has made running a VM of Ubuntu -- or any Linux distribution -- fairly painless. Using commercial software like VMware Fusion 2.0 or Parallels Desktop, or open source and free solutions like ...

Fix a VirtualBox Windows crash-on-pause issue
MacOSXHints.com — I've recently been spending a lot of time in the various virtualization apps -- VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, and Sun VirtualBox. VirtualBox was recently upgraded to version 2.0.6, and after upgrading, I had issues with my Vista guest OS on my Mac Pro, which was previously working fine. Whenever I chose to sleep or shut down Vista, the progress bar would move a bit at first, then jump back to the main VirtualBox window, where the Vista VM's status would read "Aborted." (Somewhat interestingly, the exact same installation of Vista on my MacBook ...