[Hidden-tech] VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels?

[Florent Eric Paredes]

VMWare takes up as much resources as parallels. There are no performance
gains regardless how much you tweak it and how much they advertise it
performs better.
Fan goes on, CPU goes mighty to the point where I usually prefer booting in
boot camp mode.

I had to switch when parallel totally stopped working on my computer.
I find VMWare more robust and stable than parallel.

If you make the switch, think of uninstalling Parallel tools from your
windows Vista Home Premium. As they can only be uninstalled from parallel
virtual machine.
Something I couldn¹t do so I have those parallel daemons still running in
the background, although using vmware fusion for 3 months now.




From: Bill Carr <bill at bottlenose-wine.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:17:02 -0400
To: Jeff Rutherford <jeff at jeffrutherford.com>
Cc: Hidden-Tech Tech <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels?

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On May 14, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Jeff Rutherford wrote:

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> Has anyone compared VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels on a MacBook or MacBook Pro?
> 
> I'm currently running Parallels, and whenever I turn it on, my usually speedy
> MacBook Pro slows down noticeably. I'm wondering if VMWare Fusion may be
> better in terms of using resources - or I could just need to tweak some
> setting or other in Parallels to speed it up.
I use VMWare Fusion on a MBP 2.33 GHz, 2GB RAM. I have not used parallels.
It's pretty slow when the application first starts up making the rest of the
computer very unresponsive for about a minute or two. After that its fine.
Occasionally if it has been running a long time (more than a few days) it
will start to eat up CPU (30-70%) making the rest of the MBP run slow. This
usually happens at time when I am running many applications on the host OS.
I use the VM to run Vista Home Premium primarily to test my web application
in IE. The newly released beta version has support for multiple displays
which is something previous versions of VMWare Fusion did not support.


 
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