Main issues I've had with VMware is RAM and disk speed. I'm just running
XP so with 1GB RAM given to XP out of 3GB on my Macbook it's fairly
reasonable performance. Fusion 3 should be even faster than Fusion 2,
depending on what you're doing. VMWare/WindowsXP does pound my hard
drive for a few minutes after booting up or resuming from sleep. Not
sure what the culprit is but after a few minutes everything settles down
and Jaws seems to be usable. Parallels (last I checked) was not
accessible at all and Virtualbox only minimally. At least with the
command line interface on virtualbox you can do pretty much anything the
GUI can (and some things the GUI can't - like compress disk images).
CB
Simon Fogarty wrote:
Except it is bloody slow.
I am getting sick of it and it's speed issues.
Infact, Virtual box is a lot better for speed it just lacks on
accessibility.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch
Sent: Wednesday, 12 May 2010 6:15 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Emulators for other OS's on the Mac
I didn't notice a reply to this one.
You'll pay $40 or more to get Parallels so might as well upgrade to Fusion
3. It also seems to be the best of the bunch on a number of fronts.
CB
Rob Lambert wrote:
I had a copy of VMWare Fusion, but wasn't willing to pay the $40
upgrade fee for Version 3. VirtualBox doesn't seem to be working. One
quick note is that I'm a magnifier user, so I don't have to worry
about VoiceOver too much. Does anyone know of a good emulator I could
use? I've considered Parallels, but haven't had any experience with
it. Also, it should be noted that using VMWare Fusion, I was able to
seamlessly use the Macintosh Zoom utility inside of the virtual
machine without any problems, so being able to do that on the new one
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