Virtualization features in certain Intel CPUs are good, but it doesnt change the fact that with virtual machines, the virtual OS is not seeing all the hardware natively, its being passed-through. This has a performance hit, and usually means some hardware will not work at all or not all of its features will work. Even with Parallels workstation, the virtual XP machine is not seeing the real motherboard, real network card, etc, but virtual ones that are hooked up to the real hardware via OSX and Parallels workstation.
If they do indeed put some 3d graphics stuff in the next version, it will be very interesting to see how it performs. It has little chance of performing as well as their marketing. Cheers Steve of Elbows --- In [email protected], Kunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No. Parallels Workstatoin 2.1 uses the Virtualization hardware that > is a part of the Core Duo Yonah processor to accomplish hardware > speed in the OS X Virtual environ thanks to Intel's new architecture. > Users of Parallels' solution report they perceive it to be just as > fast as the native boot that Boot Camp offers. But it is true they > don't support 3-D gaming yet. They plan to do that in 3.0 this Summer. > -- > Taylor Barcroft > New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster > Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley > URL http://FutureMedia.org > RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia > iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 > barcroft (gizmo) > kungax (Skype) > kungag5 (iChat-AIM) > > > On Apr 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > Wheras if you use virtualisation > > stuff, OSX already has control of the graphics & other hardware, so > > the virtualised Windows cannot speak directly to that hardware. This > > causes a performance hit. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
