Users wanting to run Windows or Linux natively on the Mac has never had it so good. There are several options available for running almost any x86-based operating system as a VM under Mac OS X, including Parallels, VMware Fusion, and VirtualBox. If you like the fact that Macs are less prone to problems, viruses, and spyware, but you simply have to run a few Windows applications, it's a great time to be alive.
In that spirit, VMware has opened the doors to the second beta release of VMware Fusion 2, VMware's Mac desktop virtualization package. There are more than a few new tricks in Fusion 2, including mirrored folders that map a folder on your host Mac to a folder in the VM, such as My Documents. Also nice is the new automatic snapshots feature, which can be configured to take a snapshot of the VM every 30 minutes, every hour, or every day, making rollbacks easy.
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