As you discovered VMWare is pretty much the only accessible
virtualization package on the mac. Sun's VirtualBox doesn't have an
accessible GUI but it does have a command line interface, so it can
still be used that way. As far as speed and performance goes, Windows
beats on the hard drive a good bit so it can take a while to un-sludge
after starting up, especially if your Mac is trying to access the drive
at the same time. Also need to check how much RAM you have left. My
MacBook has 3GB so if I run 1.5GB for VMWare that only leaves 1.5GB for
the Mac. If the Mac runs out it starts doing 'virtual memory' which
swaps older chunks of RAM to the hard drive which is orders of magnitude
slower than real RAM. So, if your Windows virtual machine pounds the
hard drive and you trigger some virtual memory swapping to hard drive
you're in for a world of hurt. You might actually be faster with that
512MB virtual machine and not triggering memory swapping.
CB
Sarah Alawami wrote:
Hello. I decided to try parelells and found it to be inaccessibal with mac
voice over. if it is can someone shead some lite on this? this is driving me
nuts!
Thaks.
S
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