parallels performance
I tried the parallels beta with a trial key and I have to say I was disappointed at the performance. On an Intel Core Duo, Parallels ran quite a bit slower than VMWare did on my Pentium 4 running Windows XP. I didn't even both finishing the Windows install since it said it was going to take an hour and a half. Under VMWare, I was able to install Win98 in about 10 minutes. Apparently VMWare's patented technology is pretty good stuff. I just didn't find the performance of Parallels to be good enough to spend money on. What are your experiences?
I think I'm waiting for the Mac version of VMWare to show up.
I think I'm waiting for the Mac version of VMWare to show up.
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I tried the parallels beta with a trial key and I have to say I was disappointed at the performance. On an Intel Core Duo, Parallels ran quite a bit slower than VMWare did on my Pentium 4 running Windows XP. I didn't even both finishing the Windows install since it said it was going to take an hour and a half.
I bought Parallels a little while ago and have found it to be very stable and useful. I don't remember the install taking a noticeably long time. I'm running my virtual machine with 904Mb of RAM out of the 2Gb in my iMac. How much memory are you running with?
Launching Windows takes about 10 seconds on a Mini Duo with 1GB Ram and everything seems to run pretty fast but I haven't pushed it yet.
I'd like to see what VMWare come up with though:
http://vmware.rsc02.net/servlet/camp..._ID_=vmwi.1756
They're taking their time to get their product out. Parallels is already in Apple stores and getting it heavily tested by end users. I also think they have a better brand name.
I tried the parallels beta with a trial key and I have to say I was disappointed at the performance. On an Intel Core Duo, Parallels ran quite a bit slower than VMWare did on my Pentium 4 running Windows XP. I didn't even both finishing the Windows install since it said it was going to take an hour and a half. Under VMWare, I was able to install Win98 in about 10 minutes. Apparently VMWare's patented technology is pretty good stuff. I just didn't find the performance of Parallels to be good enough to spend money on.
Let me understand this, you made a determination of performance based on a partial install of the system without having actually run said system. If I remember the back in the days of 98, installers estimated time of completion varies quite a bit as you proceed. You may want to try actually finishing installing and test performance at that point.
...and who really wants to run 98 these days anyway...
Let me understand this, you made a determination of performance based on a partial install of the system without having actually run said system. If I remember the back in the days of 98, installers estimated time of completion varies quite a bit as you proceed. You may want to try actually finishing installing and test performance at that point.
...and who really wants to run 98 these days anyway...
yes, I did, because I didn't have the hour and a half to spare. It seemed that what was holding everything back was I/O performance. The reason I asked is because I didn't actually get the testing finished. The machine was part of a lab and I was just curious. I don't have an Intel powered Apple machine to do this on. For my own use I have a Powerbook G4 and a Power Mac G5 at work. The Power Mac with its 970FX processor actually runs Virtual PC better than I expected. It runs it respectably. I wasn't expecting it to do well at all considering the processor doesn't support virtual little endian mode like the G3 and G4 class processors do.
yes, I did, because I didn't have the hour and a half to spare. It seemed that what was holding everything back was I/O performance. The reason I asked is because I didn't actually get the testing finished. The machine was part of a lab and I was just curious. I don't have an Intel powered Apple machine to do this on. For my own use I have a Powerbook G4 and a Power Mac G5 at work. The Power Mac with its 970FX processor actually runs Virtual PC better than I expected. It runs it respectably. I wasn't expecting it to do well at all considering the processor doesn't support virtual little endian mode like the G3 and G4 class processors do.
after trying bootcamp & parallels i wouldnt wipe a$$ with virtual pc if it was the last toilet paper on earth. and that was with the latest G5 optimized version...