Today, because of Victor Domingos, I decided to give another try on Virtual Machines. I saw his post and went to the site.
There is a source tarball platform indepent, but I suppose I needed the development tools from Apple (since it is about 900M and my network connection was pretty full, I did not even check if I could install it on my mac).
But this remmember me about VMware fusion for Mac, so I decided to give a proper try.
First, I must say I almost had gave up of trying to have Linux here. The process of install it to HD (I need windows too) is incredible difficult or at least time-consuming (time that I do not have).
Then I tried Fink and MacPorts. I had problems of stability (many crashes) and exchange things (like copy/paste does not work every time)
Then I tried KDE4 for mac, yes running the app on mac (like kontact without KDE), but it is very unstable and impossible to use.
Then I tried Virtual Machines: Q; Virtual Box; Parallels (only the ones I can think of right now) and I always had problems with them. Keyboard problems (@); Wireless problems; and exchange of files problems, and even installation problems.
Today I installed VMware Fusion for Mac (trial) and installed Kubuntu (
I had both in my hard drive for sometime - someone I do not remmeber the name told me about it at Barcamp - thanks, by the way 
) and the thing is at follows:
- My wireless works just fine;
- I installed VMware Tools and I just need to click on a folder or file in mac os x and drag it to the window of Kubuntu - he asks me if I want to move or to copy;
- I copy text on mac and paste it in Kubuntu.
It is a little bit slow, but very “workable” 
I am really surprised! Now, I will try to check how much it costs… :-S
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Next step: replacing Kubuntu by Debian O:-)
My choice would go for Parallels. If you compare them side by side both VMWare Fusion and Parallels, the former seems to have a better performance.
In terms of integration, if Windows is the choice for running under the VM, then integration between Mac and Windows is perfect - even it works with Exposé. It is not so good with any of the Linuxes, but I guess Fusion has also the same limitations.
Cheers,
I tried parallels and it is not good. Exposé works just fine (I tried it now) and I am in full screen without crashing (which happened on parallels).
I am talking about Linux. Windows I need it with basecamp, since I have to play games to my thesis and they are very heavy…
The best thing with VMware is that you copy something from finder and place it in home of kubuntu - drag and drop just as if you were in the same OS
I very very happy it is the first VM I try with a possibility of staying…
If it works for you, then go ahead!
I bought Parallels, and is now up and running with Windows XP and Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
When I tried Parallels I could not work in full screen, in Linux. It was always crashing, maybe now it is better I do not know, but I am really happy with this VMware thing
My supervisor is very happy with parallels too, but he has a Macbook, maybe is something about the kind of mac, I do not know…
@ = ctrl+option 2 (in virtualized windows at least)
Oh, in VMware fusion I was able to do @ with the key next to the left arrow ( i do not know it’s name, it is the second after the space bar to teh right) + 2. But in another VM I couldn’t find it