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- colincornaby, on 05/06/2008, -2/+27Well, this would seem to be the end for Parallels, considering that they don't even have XP SP3 support yet...
- bigandy, on 05/06/2008, -0/+24VMWare is king in the virtualization market. Parallels was always going to take a big hit. Plus their interface is just too childish.
- MurphyMac, on 05/06/2008, -0/+20Fusion 1.x has exceeded all my expectations. Zero regrets about leaving Boot Camp behind. Using the VMWare Converter made the switch easy.
- Zeddd, on 05/06/2008, -3/+22Dugg for the ridiculous 360 degree 8 monitor set-up. Haha! Any person who had that would be my god!
- Asphyxia8489, on 05/06/2008, -0/+11It's not a case of "Why would you need it" it's a case of "cause we can"
- DomZy, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10Set it up as a shared folder
- makis, on 05/06/2008, -0/+7i'm using parralles with XP SP3 and have no problems at all.and having used both a lot for work, parallels is much better when it comes to suspend and restore the VM even on a macbook pro with 2gb of ram, and only 512 mb of ram for the virtualized OS...vmware completely freeze the lapto for half a minute while resuming and take forever to become active, while parallels is up and ready to go in less than 30 seconds.said that, vmware is more stable, faster, and supports both cores of my C2D
- inactive, on 05/06/2008, -0/+6Quoth the raven, 404.
- atticus8, on 05/06/2008, -0/+6I can't get my Hackintosh to direct boot to Windows, and it's caused my PC gaming universe to collapse inward upon itself. Many tears were shed, for one can only live on the six or seven Mac-native-but-still-slightly-inferior PC ports for so long. If VMware can get fairly recent games to run (no need for Crysis, I'd be happy with original HL2 or F.E.A.R.) I will switch over to them in an instant, and this is speaking as a guy who paid full price for Parallels 2.0 and then paid again for 3.0.
Of course, what I'd REALLY like to do is a get a freakin' straight boot right into the Windows XtraPirated that I have, but that turned out to be way harder than building the entire Hackintosh from scratch, and the difficulty of doing so is still vexing me. Or maybe I'm just stupid. - andrewtheart, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5Sorry about this comment, I was male PMS'ing when I posted it. It especially doesn't make sense in light of the fact that I used VMWare at one time and thought it was pretty decent. VirtualBox for me though.
- Jpesci, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5Buy a separate HD and boot windows from that.
- alpha88, on 05/06/2008, -1/+6YESSSS! I've been waiting for multiple display support!
- bigandy, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5Probably in the bit after EFI emulation, and the EULA issues. Currently the EULA states only OS X Server can be virtualized on an OS X Server instance. e.g. You can't run Leopard Server on Leopard Client.
- websyndicate, on 05/06/2008, -4/+8why the hell would you need 8 monitors in a VM? Okay now its a pissing contest between Parallels and Fusion
- buzzair, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4I feel like a newb compared to some of the comments so far...but here goes...
I never liked VMWare because when you set it to expanding HD...it doesn't go back down. For example, if you rip a DVD using AnyDVD & CloneDVD, burn it, and then delete the video_ts folder..the HD space taken remains the same.
Am I doing something wrong? Is this taken care of in the new version? - bigandy, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5And it's not just eight monitors!
"Use up to 10 displays with VMware Fusion"
:-D - mstrebe, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4Eight correctly supported monitors?
(switching to mac) - schoate09, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4Parallels' virtualization engine is so inferior to VMware's. VMware has greater 3d support, faster virtual disk support, faster CPU virtualization, etc. Even on VMware fusion, which is really one of their weakest products, it's still better than any non VMware solution I've ever used.
- clesch, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5Has anyone tested the new DX 9.0 support?
I wonder if HL2/TF2 would run in it as I can't be bothered to install Bootcamp just to play that single video game once a week. - clesch, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4Parallels did it first, VMware did it right.
- tapeworm77, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4Yeah I hate it when I can only get 8/10 working.
- makis, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5apparently someone did...
- MtheoryX, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5Dead link.
- superxero044, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4well with vmware fusion you can use the same partition for boot camp as virtual windows in vmware.
so even with the current version you can just reboot to run tf2 - mrsteveman1, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4You don't ask much of your deity huh?
Ok then, I did it, now go sacrifice something in my honor, your choice. - inactive, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5Well, Parallels on Mac. However, even on Linux I haven't heard anything good about Parallels.
- Kanaka, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3This adds to one of the reasons i'm glad i dumped Parallels for VMWare. I know Parallels is a relatively smaller company when compared with VMwware (i think) and as a result have to charge for each upgrade but it still sucks either way.
Another reason was that i found Parallels to be slooower/clunkier than VMware in overall usage (probably due to lack of multi processor support) - eleven, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3I took advantage of the competitive upgrade from Parallels to Fusion - they're both pretty good but I have a feeling that VMWare will pull ahead.
- Katarn, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3I really liked Parallel's original interface for OSX. They changed it for who knows why and now the buttons just don't look like they belong with the Mac OS or Windows.
- schoate09, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3I'm not sure why you're being dugg down, you make a valid point. The problem is that if you're using a system that can handle such intensive tasks in a virtual machine, chances are your hard drive is so big that the difference in space is really arbitrary.
- vault, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3There is no comparison...I switched to VMWare Fusion and it's much more stable and much less gimmicky than Parallels.
- SonnyW, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3My choice? The possibilities...
Fine then, I sacrifice my virginity in the name of my deity. All hail mrsteveman1! - specialK16, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3Where is the 3D support for other versions of VMWare?
- metzner, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2i was just watching the vid and that guy has like 8 screens wow! vmware rocks i gotta buy it for linux.
- robzilla804, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Still no snapshot manager. Makes no sense for the Windows VMWare to have it but not Fusion. I read somewhere that the technology to support it was already in the code they just needed to turn it on. I couldn't care less about 10 monitor support and DirectX 9 acceleration. However, there is a real business need for snapshot management. Sigh.
- omnivector, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3No, there's no firewire support and there's likely never to be any. What's the business reason? iPods use USB2 now. Almost every external HD has a USB2 connection. And worst case, you can setup a read/write shared folder.
- nuggetz, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Yay, now I can run compiz in Ubuntu in Vmware on Xp.
- palmerized, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2For developing websites on my Mac, being able to test in a real version of Internet Explorer is essential... this allows it. Love having Windows XP Pro and OS X on my MacBook Pro. I tried Vista and it runs pretty slow and doesn't support Aero.
I've got 4GB of RAM, and the odd time things slow down. I've allocated only 512MB to Windows (only need it for IE 7). Generally, it's pretty speedy. - omnivector, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2HL2/Portal does not yet work in 2.0 :(
- makis, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3i *do* this with parallels everyday to develop windows things and .net apps with "only" 2gigs of ram, and it's true.vmware takes a HUUUUGE amount of time to load.parallels doesn't.
- Mystreaux, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3i use vmware fusion on my macbook pro, mainly because fruity loops is windows only and i love playing around on it.
however, even when i designate most of my memory to running windows in full screen mode with minimal mac applications open, it lags and sputters like crazy.
could be fruity loops, but windows itself takes a substantial amount of time to load, every single time. sometimes my cursor just sits there frozen for 5 minutes.
*sigh* - swtaarrs, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2This is the best version yet! Did anyone notice the awesome new virtual machine library window? VMware is awesome!
- paradexes, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Probably coming later on. The support has been there, but needs to be added via the VMX file. it is documented in VMware's KB.
- andrewtheart, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Try VirtualBox. I run Windows XP under it and dedicate 192MB RAM, and it runs decently fast (surprisingly) on my only slightly better than average laptop.
- Laxaloot, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Is there going to be support for firewire drives now? And don't tell me i can set it up to be a shared folder, cause the "read-only" problem is a big one for me.
- clesch, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2They use Virtuozzo by the company formerly known as SWsoft which recently acquired Parallels and abandoned their old name.
The developers of the Mac Parallels application have nothing at all to do with Virtuozzo, they just share the name now. - thestaton, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2I own both Parallels & Fusion and can't say I've used Parallels in a year. Fusion is a beast and 2.0 is looking really exciting.
- deevay, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Problem I had with VM Ware and why I don't use it anymore is because it heats my damn macbook like a bitch. especially when I would play GTA the temp. would go up to 89 degrees celcius and then it finally fried my hard disk...thank god for apple care.
- colincornaby, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Well, according to Parallels, you shouldn't be running with SP3...
http://www.hothardware.com/News/Parallels%5FXP%5FS ... - schoate09, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Depending on your Mac, it may not work. The 3d rendering backend is incompatible with all Macs running the Intel GMA950 chipset.
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