Graham et alia
Using Parallels on MacBookPro mostly in Coherence mode.
Choosing "Hide" from the dock icon while using OSX.
Whenever opening an XP application, it opens rapidly rather than going
through the ritual of restarting Parallels each time.
And it is handy to drag&drop an XP icon into the dock for frequent use.
The Dock XP folder alias at RH end of dock is useful (and more Mac like
to use).
Keith
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Graham Street wrote:
Never tried VMF. I run Parallels on both a Mac Pro (7Gb) and
MacBookPro (2Gb). Been through a few versions and I'm now on version
6, the latest. Have no issues with it and it works fine for me. On the
MBP, its a bit slow but that's lack of memory and the MBP is the
original slowest spec and can't be upgraded. On the Mac Pro, I run
Parallels at the same time as everything else and with both WinXP and
W7 windows open for software testing.
Graham
on 07/04/2011 15:57 Paul Howard sent the following:
With Virtualbox being pretty much useless right now on the new
macbook pros [1] I find myself in need of paid for virtualisation.
Is there any consensus on which of the two is better?
Will be using it mainly for a Windows VM (just for testing software)
and running a couple of Linux machines. I used Parallels a few years
ago and it seemed pretty decent but have used neither of the mac
based products for ages.
Not really bothered about coherence mode or any of that, just need
the fastest most stable one really.
[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8474
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