Hi Carl,
I'm not an expert, but I've spent one or two evenings playing with
Parallels on a Mini - core duo with 1 GB, and a black MacBook core
duo with 512MB. The difference in memory had pretty drastic effects
on performance. They list 512 as being the minimum requirement, and 1
GB as the recommended. I'd suggest that 1 GB is the minimum. This was
perfectly fine for me, but I tend to be very parsimonious with my use
of windows and open applications.
A nice thing about Parallels is that it seems to set up a special
file, which represents the file system of the VM. You don't create
special partitions, or worry about NTFS, FAT32, etc. By default, this
file is about 8 GB, but, of course, you can change the size of it.
One thing I'd like to do is see if this special file can be moved
from one machine to another, or archived. That way, if you re-install
your OS, can you just restore this file, after installing parallels,
and have your old VM with applications again?
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On Nov 14, 2006, at 9:33 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
I've got a similar issue; since a client's project involves an app
that
ONLY works on Windows (!) and
needs the low level graphics driver access I'm probably gonna have to
use both Parallels AND Bootcamp.
My question re Bootcamp would be, how easy is it to modify
partitions or
even get rid of the
thing once I'm done with it.
Carl
Tim Densmore wrote:0
Supposedly parallels is the way to go - there are many issues with
bootcamp,
like all of the function keys don't work in windows and a few
other fairly
major showstoppers. Virtualization has really come a long way - some
processors even supposedly have special instruction sets for it,
but the jury
is still out on how helpful they really are. Some folks say it's
like night
and day, others say it's not worth the extra $$$ for the
processors. The
guys for TLLTS recently had Erik Troan from rPath on. It was a very
interesting interview.
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 8:20 pm, Owen Densmore wrote:
OK, I gotta ask now that there are probably several of us who have
experienced Mac running Windows on the newish Intel Mac systems:
How well does this work for you? How do you do it, with
Parallels or
Boot Camp or VMWare? Comments on the experience?
I ask 'cause I'm about to get a new 17" critter and I'd like to know
how well it works.
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
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