Critical vulnerability in VMware's virtual machine display function discovered One of the benefits of using a virtualization program such as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop to run Windows on your Mac is that anything bad that happened to Windows would only happen to Windows. So even if your Windows virtual machine wound up infected by a destructive piece of malware, you didn’t need to worry about that malware damaging your OS X files. (There’s a possible exception: shared folders that were writable inside the Windows virtual machine. But that’s another story.)
