MacRS4 wrote:
To say that virtualisation on OSX is poor though?
I didn't say poor. I just said it may be a disappointment.
I am just now running Windows 7 on Parallels 6. Windows task manager shows 0% CPU, but prl
vmapp is using 19%(could be from 6 to 20% depending on how many cores VM uses) and kernel task - 11%. Totally that is MAC OS is 9% busy, just because of idle VM running. Even more overhead during running applications.
Suspended and resumed VM, now for some reason taskbar went to the top of the screen, and task manager is no longer running.
I wouldn't call it excellent. To prove the point, take Parallels window by status bar (on the bottom of the window) and push it up under the menu bar. That is how they code.
As for saying Parallels & VMware are liars - really? I find they make great products, and I use both.
Yes. Products may be great, but they do lie.
Parallels claimed that v5 is actually working faster than native with Bootcamp. That is because their drivers are better than those in Bootcamp. Now, with v6 that would be even 40% faster.
Well, if that's not lie, I don't know what is.
And, at work I am using desktop with 6 XP guests, and when idle, CPU usage is around 2%. Programmers may have tweaked something, though.