Comments on: Happy New Year! http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-15126 simon Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:28:42 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-15126 Coherence mode on Parallels looks neat. Coherence mode on Parallels looks neat.

]]> By: Asam Bashir http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-15108 Asam Bashir Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:06:42 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-15108 I think at the moment Parallels is the more refined product it's latest beta includes a windows coherence mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjVZt-G2qC8 Speedwise the current Parallels v2.2 feels faster and uses less CPU although I haven't done any quantitative benchmarks. The VMWare beta has debugging enabled so there is a performance hit, boot times for XP are about 15 seconds in Parallels compared to about 45 seconds in VMWare. Neither support the built in graphics card, which is only an issue if you're interested in gaming which I'm not. For your average applications both work well and provide a seemless environment with easy network and file sharing. I'm running on a Core Duo machine with 2 GB RAM and dedicate 512 MB to the XP virtual machine which I've used for KinTekSim and SedPhat. With both you can specify the number of available cpu cores to dedicate to the virtual machines. Parallels hopes to deal with graphics virtualization to the GPU in it's next release v3.0. The public release version of VMWare should appear next week at MacWorld Expo so that's expected to be more refined and running at native speed. I've only tried Solaris 10 in VMware as they provide some easy to use tools to sync the monitor resolution and mouse tracking. The only problem of course is you need a valid Windows licence, something Codeweavers hopes to tackle by providing it's own API's and by passing Windows all together in a WINE like manner : http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/ It will be interesting seeing performance of both VMWare and Parallels on the expected 8 core (2 x 4) MacPro due next week - that would represent an almost perfect multi OS development machine attractive to an influential market segment of developers. I think at the moment Parallels is the more refined product it’s latest beta includes a windows coherence mode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjVZt-G2qC8

Speedwise the current Parallels v2.2 feels faster and uses less CPU although I haven’t done any quantitative benchmarks. The VMWare beta has debugging enabled so there is a performance hit, boot times for XP are about 15 seconds in Parallels compared to about 45 seconds in VMWare. Neither support the built in graphics card, which is only an issue if you’re interested in gaming which I’m not. For your average applications both work well and provide a seemless environment with easy network and file sharing. I’m running on a Core Duo machine with 2 GB RAM and dedicate 512 MB to the XP virtual machine which I’ve used for KinTekSim and SedPhat. With both you can specify the number of available cpu cores to dedicate to the virtual machines. Parallels hopes to deal with graphics virtualization to the GPU in it’s next release v3.0. The public release version of VMWare should appear next week at MacWorld Expo so that’s expected to be more refined and running at native speed. I’ve only tried Solaris 10 in VMware as they provide some easy to use tools to sync the monitor resolution and mouse tracking.

The only problem of course is you need a valid Windows licence, something Codeweavers hopes to tackle by providing it’s own API’s and by passing Windows all together in a WINE like manner :

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

It will be interesting seeing performance of both VMWare and Parallels on the expected 8 core (2 x 4) MacPro due next week - that would represent an almost perfect multi OS development machine attractive to an influential market segment of developers.

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-15095 simon Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:35:25 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-15095 What do you think of VMWare vs Parallels on the Mac? What do you think of VMWare vs Parallels on the Mac?

]]> By: Asam Bashir http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-14866 Asam Bashir Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:55:23 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/#comment-14866 Happy New Year to you as well Si ;) Hey, been playing with Solaris 10, installed it on InteliMac with the VMWare beta, so far so good, really wanted to try out the LG3D java desktop but not managed to get it to work yet - not sure but think it's something to do with GFX card support. Pretty impressed with VMWare though - the beta still has debugging enabled so there is about 3-5 % performance hit - but still fast. What do you think of LG3D? Wonder why they don't try and make a Mac OS X version? Can't wait for MacWorld expo - seen the front page of http://apple.com? Happy New Year to you as well Si ;) Hey, been playing with Solaris 10, installed it on InteliMac with the VMWare beta, so far so good, really wanted to try out the LG3D java desktop but not managed to get it to work yet - not sure but think it’s something to do with GFX card support. Pretty impressed with VMWare though - the beta still has debugging enabled so there is about 3-5 % performance hit - but still fast.

What do you think of LG3D? Wonder why they don’t try and make a Mac OS X version?

Can’t wait for MacWorld expo - seen the front page of http://apple.com?

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