[geeks] Whats the verdict - vmware fusion or parallels?

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 03:31:48AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

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 VMware started out with really crap performance but has gotten at least
> as good as Parallels.  The emulated hardware is a little more common, so

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Thanks for the good advice, vmware seems to be the clear winner here,
when recommended by such an obvious parallels power user.
My subjective experience of the difference in CPU usage (watching
menu-meters!) tends to indicate parallels is a heavier CPU user.

Its interesting that you don't mention bootcamp. The only reason I
require 'real' windows is for brain dead support staff at
$WORK/$CLIENTS, who refuse to touch os x, so I can't get rid of it, but
currently I waste 30GiB for a bootcamp partition, and 22GiB for a vmware
image (=52GiB out of a 120GB laptop harddrive). Having good support to
run the bootcamp partition in a VM is a great way to save some of that
space. However, vmware fusion still bluescreens every time I try to boot
my bootcamp partition, for me parallels has none of those problems.

Cheers,
Jonathan.