Re: My process of choosing VM software, I started with:
"Virtualization Benchmark Showdown – Parallels 10 vs. Fusion 7 vs. VirtualBox"
"Parallels Desktop 10 offers better performance in most areas compared to VMware Fusion 7. While the gap is narrow in some categories, Parallels 10 simply outmatches Fusion 7 in both raw processing power and graphics performance."
"But both Parallels and Fusion faced surprisingly competent competition from VirtualBox. While a distant third in most benchmarks, VirtualBox easily handled most of our non-GPU tasks without a hitch. You won’t want to use a VirtualBox VM for gaming or heavy workloads, and disk performance could be better, but if you just need to run some moderately demanding Windows software on your Mac,...there’s absolutely no need to spend upwards of $80 on commercial virtualization software. In addition, VirtualBox is cross-platform, meaning that you can move your VMs between OS X, Windows,