For a good part of last year, I was very upset with the latest Parallels product. I had a Windows Vista VM running awhile for work use. One of the Parallels upgrades went bad. I attempted to revert back, but could not get past a black screen, no matter what I did. Safe mode and attempting to install generic video drivers using Windows-PE did not work. Parallels customer support attempted to help, but their recommendations were not getting me anywhere.
Luckily, the Vista VM hard drive file was not corrupted, so I was able to get my data using a Windows-XP Parallels VM.
After this experience, I did not feel like pouring more money into Parallels or another VM tool, such as VMWare Fusion. VMWare has been free on Windows and Linux for years...why pay for it on OS/X? I came across VirtualBox for the Mac in the latter part of last year, as a recommendation from a friend. Configuration is almost as easy as Parallels, and has a similar look-and-feel between various OSs.
Windows 7 has been noted to run slower in VirtualBox than in Parallels or Fusion. The best performance ranking goes to VMWare, Parallels, then VirtualBox.
I do not run Windows games, and do most of my work in OS/X. I am very happy with VirtualBox.
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