Can Parallel use a Boot Camp partition? I know Fusion can but not sure about Parallel. Basically I have XP installed via Boot Camp however I want to run it inside OSX sometimes.
Can Parallel utilize dual core?
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Yes it can! And I'm not sure about the second question, unfortunately...I haven't been following it too closely.
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No dual core support in Parallels, it's supposed to be in version 4 though
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...t_os_x_server_vm_dual_core_new_interface.html
I'd still recommend VMWare Fusion though. I bought Parallels at first, then _bought_ Fusion even though it was too late for a refund. Parallels was really buggy. There's also a philosophy difference I didn't know about at first - VMWare is what I expected from these products - a completely virtual machine living inside OS X. Parallels is more like "running Windows inside OS X" - it doesn't virtualize the hardware, rather, it makes it accessible.
That has consequences. For example I have a WWAN card for mobile internet access. There is no way to share its internet connection in Parallels - I'd have to install the windows drivers, and use the card from within Windows (which means OS X can't use it at the same time). VMWare doesn't care where the internet is coming from - it goes through OS X and makes it available as Ethernet in Windows. As it should be, IMO
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Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by lixuelai, Oct 25, 2008.