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- Pros
Fast and reliable. Sandboxed security. Free version includes easy downloads of Linux and other free OS guests. Simple interface.
- Cons
Minimal integration between host OS X and guest Windows or Linux system. No drag-and-dropping between host and guest. Only one shared folder for Windows guests.
- Bottom Line
Veertu is a minimalist virtualization app for running Windows, Linux, and a few other operating systems under OS X. It lacks some features offered by the competition, but it's got excellent sandboxed security built in.
Like Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, virtualization app Veertu runs Windows or Linux on a Mac, with the Windows or Linux guest system running in a window or full-screen under OS X. But Veertu is as different from Fusion and Parallels as an app can be while still doing basically the same job. Where Fusion and Parallels are feature-laden apps with dozens of configuration options and deep integration between OS X and its Windows or Linux guest systems, Veertu takes a minimalist approach to virtualization. This makes it a less powerful and flexible app overall, but sometimes minimal may be all you need; when that's the case, Veertu is a very good choice.
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Pricing and Versions
The free version of Veertu only lets you use open-source guest systems downloaded from its online library. You'll need to buy the $39.99 premium version (available as an in-app purchase from within the free version) if you want to install a guest system from an ISO image, in the traditional way used by Fusion, Parallels, and the long-established open-source Oracle VM VirtualBox. This means you can only run Windows in Veertu if you pay for the upgrade. The premium version can also import existing guest machines created by Fusion or Parallels, but, in my testing, the import only worked with standard OSes like Windows and Linux, not with obscure OSes like Nextstep that Fusion supports but Veertu doesn't.
Note that you can only buy the software from the App Store. One disadvantage of this App-Store-only distribution is that you can't download a trial version; you need to buy the app (or stick to the open-source guest systems) in order to try it.
Speedy, Streamlined
Veertu runs Windows or Linux at about the same fast pace that Fusion and Parallel run them, but, unlike those high-powered rivals, Veertu won't let you do tricks like running a Windows mail app when you click on a mail link in OS X, and it won't display the same files on your OS X and Windows desktops. Instead, Veertu lets you share folders between OS X and the guest system as if they were both on the same network. It also lets you copy and paste text between OS X and the guest machine. But you can't drag and drop files from the OS X desktop to a guest desktop, as you can in Parallels and Fusion. From a Veertu Windows guest, you can access only one folder (and its subfolders) on the OS X host. From a Linux guest system, however, you can access the entire OS X host system.
Like Parallels, Veertu lets you download and install virtual machines running various flavors of Linux from a menu inside the app. Veertu and Parallels both offer Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian. Parallels also offers Android, ChromeOS, a Windows 10 development environment, and an option (also available in VMware Fusion) to install a virtual copy of OS X using the recovery environment built into your Mac's OS X system. Veertu doesn't offer these, but it does offer OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Boot2Docker for creating and using encapsulated single-purpose systems.
If you're familiar with Fusion, Parallels, or the freeware VirtualBox you may be surprised by what Veertu doesn't give you. If you're running Windows or Linux in a window on the OS X desktop, Fusion and Parallels let you resize the window on the fly by dragging on the window border. Veertu doesn't give you that option, so you'll have to use the control panel in the guest OS to set its screen resolution. Surprisingly, Veertu doesn't let you use your Mac's Command key as the Windows key in a Windows guest, so you'll need to click on the Start menu in the guest when you would normally use the Win key. I found the same problem in Linux guests. This is fairly serious limitation for anyone who relies on the keyboard.
High Security
The Veertu feature that outclasses Fusion, Parallels, and VirtualBox is invisible—it's Veertu's use of the hypervisor framework that Apple built into OS X starting with version 10.10 Yosemite, and it lets Veertu run without custom-built kernel extensions and other complexities required by rival products. It also means that Veertu satisfies all of Apple's security requirements, so that's why it's available from the OS X App Store.
Veertu's incomplete keyboard support makes it less useful than either Parallels or Fusion for anyone who wants to run Windows software on a Mac, and it doesn't match Fusion's and Parallels' ability to run a single Windows app in an OS X window. There's a free alternative in Oracle's VirtualBox, but VirtualBox doesn't provide Veertu's sandboxed security and convenient downloads of Linux guests, nor can it match Fusion's and Parallels' integration features. If you're just looking to run a few simple Windows apps or games, you might try Urge Software's Wineskin Winery; it's free, but it can be tricky to set up, and it didn't work well with complex apps in my testing.
Veertu isn't much cheaper than Parallels or Fusion, but its sandboxed security can make it attractive to testers or to anyone who prefers minimalist software to the intrusive thicket of integration features and marketing popups that can be annoying and distracting in Parallels. If you're willing to live with its limits, Veertu is worth exploring, but if you need to use Windows apps in OS X, then our Editors' Choice apps—Fusion and Parallels—are what you'll need.
Veertu (for Mac)
Bottom Line: Veertu is a minimalist virtualization app for running Windows, Linux, and a few other operating systems under OS X. It lacks some features offered by the competition, but it's got excellent sandboxed security built in.
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