Parallels Desktop 5 Compared to VMWare Fusion 3

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Well after doing a screencast on VMWare Fusion 3 last week and then seeing Parallel release desktop 5 I had to do my own comparison which I decided to share with everyone.

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• Parallels 5 verse Fusion 3
• Parallels 5
• Skeeter Harris
• Virtualization
• Windows 7
• Mac Village Productions

[musicfreak25195]

Why do you always call it "Windows 2007"?

[wkharris]

@musicfreak25195 Just my bad.. Sorry about that

[IsThisMy1ife]

Hello sir, I have a macbook with 2.5 of Ram, when setting up my VM should i set it to 2gb?

[wkharris]

@IsThisMy1ife No - make sure you only set it to use 1.5gb so that OSX has room to run

[poisonsm]

Hi sr!.. i need help, (sry about my english) i just buy an imac, and i need autocad for my wife, i get parallel, windows 7, an autocad, it looks cool untill now, but autocad is just tooo slow!.. a creat my virtual machine with 1 GB ram..

do i need create 1 with more!? Ram is my problem!? =(

Thnx!!

[wkharris]

@poisonsm Also - You do not need to create a NEW VM go into the configuration setting and check two thiings.

1. Under General Change Memory setting to at least 2GB

2. Under Options/Optimization make sure you select Faster VM on drop down AND Enable Adaptive Hymbervisor and Tune Windows for Speed.

Good Luck!

[ttyyuu12345]

man my windows 7 machine only has 3gb of ram and 2.13 ghz duo core (its a laptop)

[35g70]

SO Parallels kills VMware?

[ayaneforever]

Very informative review of both options, thank you so much, I am now set on Parallels as it is much faster than VMWare Fusion.

[hisveggieness]

@catha86 Good reason not to is AV can use up a lot of resources, but if your scenario merits it then go for it.

[catha86]

@hisveggieness I decided to use a AV incase. I like to watch porn and my friends who sometimes use my computer can really fucked up my comp big time if I don't use AV. its free and take no effort so why not use it.

[hisveggieness]

@catha86 I don't run AV on Windows at all. With a well maintained set up and good practices you shouldn't need AV. I use MalwareBytes to scan my system from time to time.

[dcj991]

@wkharris hey i have a early 2009 imac running osx 10.5.8 with 4gb of ram intel based and i tryed running windows 7 ultimate. that forze. i tried windows vista ultimate 64 bit. that crashed. i am now using vmwarefusion 3 newest version running windows vista 32 bit home premium with 100 gb implanted in windows and 200gb left in my mac hardrive. and windows vista home premium 32 bt works great but why did i have problems with the other 2 versions of windows i tried?