It works well in VMWare, we used Parallels here for about 1.5 years, I cursed every minute of it and had 2 major crashes of Windows requiring full reinstallations. VMWare has worked like a dream, it is a much smaller, faster program and it seems much more stable and reliable. If you have not been thrilled with Parallels, consider VMWare, the 7096 is plug an play on our iMac running Vista in VMWare.