[Hidden-tech] VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels?

[Bill Carr]

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?
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> 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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