Anyone running VMWare and Win7?
I need to run IE and tried Crossover but the site I need to visit barfed when I tried it this way.
If you're running win 7 in VMWare, what are your system specs (RAM and CPU) and how would you rate the system responsiveness?
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Anyone running VMWare and Win7?
I need to run IE and tried Crossover but the site I need to visit barfed when I tried it this way.
If you're running win 7 in VMWare, what are your system specs (RAM and CPU) and how would you rate the system responsiveness?
I ran Win7 RC for a month in VMware. On a 2009 2,93Ghz 17" MBP with 4GB RAM. It was slow as molasses (apart from all the other M$ idiosyncrasies!). A couple weeks ago someone suggested that might have been due to my configuration of VMware (allocation size of its elbow room; I either gave it too much or too little, according to the gentleman on this board; I forget which...).
My guess on the reason it ran so slow is/was that either VMware or Win7 RC used only one of the available cores.
If cores and speed are a factor, the quad iMacs might help.
In addition to just having more cores (four in the i5 and eight threads in the i7), they also have "Speed Step" which automatically increases the CPU speed when some cores are idle - up to 3.2GHz I think.
When these are in the macbooks it will be great.
up to 3.2GHz I think.
Upto 3.46GHz in the the new iMac (i7) quadcore.
When these are in the macbooks it will be great.
When? In the next round of MacBook Pro models!. Within the first 6 months of 2010. Count on it.
Anyone running VMWare and Win7?
I need to run IE and tried Crossover but the site I need to visit barfed when I tried it this way.
If you're running win 7 in VMWare, what are your system specs (RAM and CPU) and how would you rate the system responsiveness?
I've been running the RC under Fusion for a while now... my machine is a 2.4GHz Unibody with 4GB of RAM. I have no complaint whatsoever about the performance. I have easily done real work using it where I couldn't get native OS X application support (VMware vSphere client).
Any idea why? I just run XP in it.
I suspect the actual VMware hypervisor (one per VM) runs as 64-bit and the UI, etc does not.
What is the hypervisor?
That's the actual application that runs the virtual machine. It does the hardware emulation. If I'm not mistaken, one instance is created per VM. When you have a running VM, you should see it in the process list.
So the VM component then, is 64bit, and what my sys profiler is showing is not the main component that is 64bit? Im not knowledgeable in this area, Im just curious, because I plan on maxing the ram out on my MBP here to 8 gigs when the time comes..so I would hope that the VM app would benefit from it.
Does VMware Fusion allow a VM to have more than 4GB of RAM? My MBP only has 4GB so I cannot check that.
As does mine, but VM is touting that this version is 64bit, so I would assume it can if we were to have more than 4 gigs installed.
Upto 3.46GHz in the the new iMac (i7) quadcore.
You're on the wrong website. The Quad Core iMac goes up to 2.8GHz.
The dual core doesn't even go up to 3.4Ghz. (3.33GHz)
You're on the wrong website. The Quad Core iMac goes up to 2.8GHz.
The dual core doesn't even go up to 3.4Ghz. (3.33GHz)
i7 spec -Turbo Boost dynamic performance up to 3.46GHz for the 2.8GHz processor.