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[James Lagnese]

I agree that VMWare works better, but Parallels already has server virtualization with OS X. 











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On Tuesday, August 05, 2008, at 01:47PM, "Colin Wheeler" <colindw at gmail.com> wrote:
>1. VMware
>
>I have tried and own licenses to both and by far I prefer VMware.  
>VMware Fusion has support for things like multi-core (parallels can  
>only use 1 core if you have a dual/quad core machine which limits you  
>on the VM performance if you really want windows/etc to boot up fast  
>and get the work done and then shut it down. Also VMware supports 64- 
>bit OS's/apps which Parallels doesn't yet support.
>
>Plus soon VMware will support running Mac OS X Server in a virtual  
>machine which will be great (NOTE I said Leopard SERVER and not the  
>client version! Apple Legal won't allow that for now.)
>
>That said Parallels is not that bad either, but i feel like VMware can  
>pretty much match everything Parallels can do and more and is less  
>resource intensive especially if you have a lighter machine with not  
>as fast a CPU/RAM,etc
>
>I used Parallels for a long while to do my homework on XP/Visual  
>Studio and make sure that documents were readable in MS Office for  
>Windows and recently switched to VMware and now that they will soon  
>allow you to run virtualized instances of Mac OS X server Im sold. I  
>believe Parallels may do the same thing as well, but they seem to be  
>getting behind lately.
>
>I think both of them may also allow you to boot off of a Boot Camp  
>Partition as well.
>
>All in all both of them are good choices, but if you want a future  
>proof app i'd go with VMware as it's been around a long time and  
>theres a big community around providing VM's of various operating  
>systems for you to try with VMware like Solaris, Linux,etc so you  
>don't have to install and set them up, even for a programmer like me  
>sometimes getting the VMware/Parallels tools to work with Linux /  
>other OS's isn't that easy sometimes.
>
>2. Just go to their pages and google around, I found more than enough  
>resources this way.
>
>Like I said on my blog ( http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-agree-with-gus-vmware-mac-os-x.html 
>  ) I can attest to seeing Mac OS X server run well on VMware if you  
>are considering that as well.
>
> From Colin Wheeler
>www.cocoasamurai.com
>
>
>On Aug 5, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>
>> a good friend of mine just got rid of her 4 year old Dell [it  
>> started doing Fatal Errors on her] and bought a 15" MacBook Pro =  
>> she does have practice software that is windows based =
>>
>> the lst Q is - Parallels or VMFusion???
>>
>> 2nd Q - any good sites, blogs or other info [other than Apple's  
>> site] to steer her toward if she has Q...
>>
>> Thanks
>> -- 
>> Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights,  
>> Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph.  
>> 515/255-4475;  iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com;  Skype:  vlherring.
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