Yeah. so I think I'll just log out of the mac and log in to bootcamp every time I want to edit a podcast or what not. a shame but it works I guess. On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
> Yes, the audio leaves a lot to be desired when virtualizing, and I heard on > some podcast that broadcasters want to start virtualizing. I would imagine > the setup on the macs isn't set up to support the virtualization support the > processors have, so you're taking the overhead. One would think 2 out of 4 > gigs of ram should be enough, Windows 32 bit can't really use much more than > 3 anyways, so it must be in the audio drivers that make it choppy. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sarah Alawami > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:39 PM > Subject: Re: parelells a complete waist of my time > > exactlaly. and th esuddering never went away. it just got worse until jaws > would uct out whole words. > > See the link to the recording I posted. > On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> I haven't played much with Win7, just XP under fusion. Just after booting it >> does seem to beat on my hard drive for a few minutes making Jaws stutter, >> but that clears up shortly. So if you gave 2GB to Win7, how much is left for >> OSX? 2GB? >> >> CB >> >> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> >>> I tried running 7 u8nder 512 mb of ram and it hurt totally. jaws studered >>> and it sounded owful. Here it is under 2 gigs. Sorry about the bad quality. >>> I had to plug in another osund card just to here the thing. >>> >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672188/vmware%20fudge%20up.mp3 >>> >>> I ran 32 gigs and had about 2 gigs left for the ram. the windows run under >>> 2 gigs 1 core. I have a dool core processer. Vocie over was still fine. >>> On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >>> >>> >>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
