I always wanted my VMs to live in their own little isolated worlds and not to have anything related to Windows showing up anywhere on my Mac unless it was contained inside that VM when I started it up. I never cared about all the integration stuff Parallels loves to market. Of course, I have no idea how things are now but I can tell you that if it were me, again I would go straight to VMware.
Lastly, after years of trailing Parallels in Windows gaming performance, at the time I switched which was maybe 3 years ago, they had come up from behind and were outperforming Parallels. I had VMs for Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1 (?) and the occasional linux I think and everything just worked well. It nothing else, you may find it a great way to run older Windows games without messing around with Wine. I found VMware to be a superior product and with a fair and decent management at least several years ago. The software is decent but the suits in that company are bad news.
That means, either they didn't test it at all or they lied. I ditched them when they made a false claim about a version not being capable of operating at all unless upgraded for a new macOS which was not true. Personally, I am with Frost on the Parallels issue of milking users for more cash. I don't mean ancient either but I wouldn't even consider anything new really and certainly not new AAA although I imagine LOL is not so demanding as those games? Maybe it is.Īnyway, it never hurts to try I guess and you can do a free trial of either product probably. What I found them to be great for in terms of gaming was to be able to run older games beautifully when they work which was often. I would especially be wary of playing any competitive multiplayer game in a virtual machine because you don't want any performance hit at all there, the reason I suspect you are wanting to try something other than a port you aren't pleased with. The port would have to be pretty bad for a VM solution to be superior to it in my opinion. The thing that won't have changed though is the inescapable overhead involved in running such a demanding application in a virtual machine. I used both but it was years ago so I couldn't speak for current performance either.
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