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Is anyone able to confirm that CrossOver for Mac can run happily on a Mac that is simultaneously running an active Win XP on VMWare Fusion 5?

If you mean "confirm" as in having tried, not me. But I have used a Virtualbox VM and Crossover without any problem.

The only real question here, does your system have enough resources to run both simultaniously?

Virtualization, like VMWare, costs a whole lot in resources, since you're running two OS. Crossover, not so much overhead (as it's not an OS), but if your VM is sucking your system dry, you might have "slow downs" or hickups.

Alistair Campbell wrote:

Is anyone able to confirm that CrossOver for Mac can run happily on
a Mac that is simultaneously running an active Win XP on VMWare
Fusion 5?

I believe I used an earlier version but I can confirm that they can run simultaneously on a Mac. However, I completely agree with this:

J-P Simard wrote:

Virtualization, like VMWare, costs a whole lot in resources, since
you're running two OS. Crossover, not so much overhead (as it's not
an OS), but if your VM is sucking your system dry, you might have
"slow downs" or hickups.

As in, they run side by side, they don't touch or interfere with each other. However, you load up VMWare, add in Outlook and then run Outlook via CrossOver to have a basis for comparison and prepare for performance to crawl. It is painful.