dragontail Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 (edited) Recently, I decided to try out Parallels on my MBP/leopard. It worked okay, but it was pretty slow at times, and I had trouble shutting down XP in it (read crash). Before long, the comp had enough and I got a corrupt hall.dll, which buggered Boot Camp. I was forced to reformat and reinstall Windows again. Having Windows in Mac is extremely useful, so I'm temped to switch to Fusion or any other VM app, but I don't want my Boot Camp buggered up again. Has anyone had any problems running VM? Got any suggestions? Edited December 19, 2007 by dragontail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerless Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Running Boot Camp Beta or Boot Camp in Leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragontail Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 Running Boot Camp Beta or Boot Camp in Leopard? Sorry, I should have mentioned that. Boot Camp in Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannes Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Powerless, it depens what dragontail wants. Bootcamp is not avised on multiple forums but VMWare Fusion is mostly recomended. I, myself, use VMWare and I have no complaints. Recently installed a virtual Vista drive and everything goes fine. I only use it for Office 2007 and Visual Studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Supposedly the latest version of Parallels is now faster than VMware Fusion, depending on your hardware. http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/19/boot-c...are-benchmarks/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I personally find VMWare to be 10,000 times faster than Parallels and it runs with a Bootcamp install no problem, but I prefer it with a VHD because of the volume shrinking option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slang123 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 The recent comparison of speed between Parallels and Fusion are just rubbish, I have both and by far Fusion is miles ahead speed, feature & stability wise. According to those benchmarks, Parallels runs faster than Boot Camp sometimes! Heres a less crazy article And with the speed improvements from VMWare Fusion 1.1, you know there's no contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragontail Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 It's a good sign that Fusion is nice and stable. Has anyone had any issues with it yet? Even minor stuff that **** you off occasionally, it doesn't have to break the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajputwarrior Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 i used to use parallels and now i have switches to vmware. it is a lot more stable and faster for me and my macbook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jgrodri Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 The only thing that annoys me about VMware is the huge bar on top of the VM window. unless you are running fullscreen that thing takes away a lot of your vertical space (specially annoying in a macbook with the dock in the bottom). Parallels at least has all those control options on a side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 ... You just press the button on the top right side of the window It's the same for ALL OS X applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 The only thing that annoys me about VMware is the huge bar on top of the VM window. unless you are running fullscreen that thing takes away a lot of your vertical space (specially annoying in a macbook with the dock in the bottom). Parallels at least has all those control options on a side. VMware Fusion's toolbar isn't any different from any other Mac OS X application that uses the default look. Plus you can hide it with a single click like Vegetunks suggested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragontail Posted December 21, 2007 Author Share Posted December 21, 2007 Okay, I think I'll switch to Fusion at some point. Thanks guys, much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Constructors Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 VMWare Fusion 1.1 is runs much smoother on my MacBook than Parallels also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasis Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 it also doesn't hurt to have a fair bit of ram, in my mbp i have 4 gb and normally give 1.5 to the vm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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