Buh-bye Parallels

[Kaido]

I loved Parallels 2.0, but after upgrading to 3.0 I've had nothing but issues. At least two lockups or weird things a day, bleh! I just moved over to VMware and I couldn't be happier...I was able to specify two cores for my virtual machine and Unity is flawless, much better than Coherance. Bye Parallels!

 

[JackBurton]

VMWare is BAD. They are THE standard when it come to virtualizing machines, no matter what platform you run it on.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
VMWare is BAD. They are THE standard when it come to virtualizing machines, no matter what platform you run it on.

Bad as in...good?

 

[AsianriceX]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
VMWare is BAD. They are THE standard when it come to virtualizing machines, no matter what platform you run it on.

Still missing multi-monitor support

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: AsianriceX

Originally posted by: JackBurton
VMWare is BAD. They are THE standard when it come to virtualizing machines, no matter what platform you run it on.

Still missing multi-monitor support

How do you mean, like dragging from one monitor to another? Or spanning?

 

[MovingTarget]

Has anyone tried this for virtualization here? If so, how well did it work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28emulator%29

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: AsianriceX

Originally posted by: JackBurton
VMWare is BAD. They are THE standard when it come to virtualizing machines, no matter what platform you run it on.

Still missing multi-monitor support

Nope, VMWare Workstation 6.0 has it. Now I don't know if the OSX's version does though.

 

[Kmax82]

I have Parallels installed on my Work machine, but have started using VMWare on my home desktop. I know that they have a tool to transfer your Windows system from Parallels to VMWare, but does anyone know if there are hiccups with this process? I have all my work email, and such on that system, so I'd hate to lose all that.

Thanks, I guess I could just take a Snapshot and if it didn't work, I wouldn't be out anything.

EDIT: Gave the Importer a shot, and it worked wonderfully. Took about 15 minutes to complete. But all my settings, and programs, were ported over beautifully! And VMWare is much snappier, plus it actually shows you the icons on the dock, which is quite nice. I'm going to have to pick up the full version, probably from Amazon. They are having a sale for $44.99 right now, which is a steal for this program!

 

[Rilex]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I loved Parallels 2.0, but after upgrading to 3.0 I've had nothing but issues. At least two lockups or weird things a day, bleh! I just moved over to VMware and I couldn't be happier...I was able to specify two cores for my virtual machine and Unity is flawless, much better than Coherance. Bye Parallels!

Creating an SMP guest where SMP isn't required can hurt performance.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Rilex

Originally posted by: Kaido
I loved Parallels 2.0, but after upgrading to 3.0 I've had nothing but issues. At least two lockups or weird things a day, bleh! I just moved over to VMware and I couldn't be happier...I was able to specify two cores for my virtual machine and Unity is flawless, much better than Coherance. Bye Parallels!

Creating an SMP guest where SMP isn't required can hurt performance.

I have a 4-core machine with 8 gigs of ram, I think I'm alright

 

[UNCjigga]

Dude, are you running Leopard? Be sure to get the free update that officially supports Leopard--it was only updated a few days ago.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Dude, are you running Leopard? Be sure to get the free update that officially supports Leopard--it was only updated a few days ago.

It was still faster in the 2.0 stage. I'm hoping they can improve on speed w/o making us buy 4.0, but I'm skeptical about it.

 

[Rilex]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Rilex

Originally posted by: Kaido
I loved Parallels 2.0, but after upgrading to 3.0 I've had nothing but issues. At least two lockups or weird things a day, bleh! I just moved over to VMware and I couldn't be happier...I was able to specify two cores for my virtual machine and Unity is flawless, much better than Coherance. Bye Parallels!

Creating an SMP guest where SMP isn't required can hurt performance.

I have a 4-core machine with 8 gigs of ram, I think I'm alright

I should clarify: it can hurt guest performance, regardless of what your host is.

Oh, and that is a small box

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Dude, are you running Leopard? Be sure to get the free update that officially supports Leopard--it was only updated a few days ago.

Just snagged the update. Seems a tad faster as well as more stable. But I think I've converted to the VMware camp. I resisted it for such a long time because I loved Parallels so much, but now that I'm on VMware I can't say enough good things about it.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Rilex

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Rilex

Originally posted by: Kaido
I loved Parallels 2.0, but after upgrading to 3.0 I've had nothing but issues. At least two lockups or weird things a day, bleh! I just moved over to VMware and I couldn't be happier...I was able to specify two cores for my virtual machine and Unity is flawless, much better than Coherance. Bye Parallels!

Creating an SMP guest where SMP isn't required can hurt performance.

I have a 4-core machine with 8 gigs of ram, I think I'm alright

I should clarify: it can hurt guest performance, regardless of what your host is.

Oh, and that is a small box

Exactly how would it hurt guest performance? I run XP on dual-core physical machines as well as on dual-core virtual machines. Both seem fine to me!

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Dude, are you running Leopard? Be sure to get the free update that officially supports Leopard--it was only updated a few days ago.

Just snagged the update. Seems a tad faster as well as more stable. But I think I've converted to the VMware camp. I resisted it for such a long time because I loved Parallels so much, but now that I'm on VMware I can't say enough good things about it.

Fair enough. I've got a soft spot for Parallels because I know some folks there and almost took a job with them.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Dude, are you running Leopard? Be sure to get the free update that officially supports Leopard--it was only updated a few days ago.

Just snagged the update. Seems a tad faster as well as more stable. But I think I've converted to the VMware camp. I resisted it for such a long time because I loved Parallels so much, but now that I'm on VMware I can't say enough good things about it.

Fair enough. I've got a soft spot for Parallels because I know some folks there and almost took a job with them.

Ah, vested interest In all seriousness, with Parallels 2.0 you couldn't pay me to even bother trying VMware. But 3.0 has been nothing but headaches for me...the new update does seem better, but VMware seems to have a small edge over Parallels, plus Unity works better than Coherance. Plus I can set single or dual-core per VM, which is really nice.

And BOY is it nice being able to run two XP VMs on my Hackintosh with no lag between OS X or either VM