Royal05Steve Posted June 2, 2008 #1 Posted June 2, 2008 I have Winders running using boot camp, but really don't like the idea of rebooting all the time to switch. Has anyone loaded Parallels and does it run well? I have 2 iMacs and I want to load it on both. ! is a 20" with 1gb and a 24" with 2gb. Wondering if the 1gb will run well with both os running at the same time. I just notced that Apple is now selling VMWare Fusion also.
GigaWhiskey Posted June 2, 2008 #2 Posted June 2, 2008 not me, still running a dual 867 G4 Power PC on one (my main box), G3 533 on the other and have not bothered on my iMac.
friesman Posted June 2, 2008 #3 Posted June 2, 2008 Our tech services dept has just finished about 400 ibooks using parallels to run XP PRO and by all reports from the tchs it runs well. We have about 1000 ibooks running bootcamp also, and when I askt the techs they like parallels mostly cause you dont have to reboot, but be prepared to add a bunch of ram. I am not a desktop guy just a lowly network admin so I get none of the fun toys anymore, so I am not totally up to speed on what they did , but if you need more info I will go over and ask them. Brian:cool10: I have Winders running using boot camp, but really don't like the idea of rebooting all the time to switch. Has anyone loaded Parallels and does it run well? I have 2 iMacs and I want to load it on both. ! is a 20" with 1gb and a 24" with 2gb. Wondering if the 1gb will run well with both os running at the same time. I just notced that Apple is now selling VMWare Fusion also.
Owen Posted June 2, 2008 #4 Posted June 2, 2008 Played with it a little but for my work I need a little better set up. I run xp pro via vmware fusion on both my macbook pro and imac. Perfect combination.
bikerscape Posted June 2, 2008 #5 Posted June 2, 2008 I run VMWare Fusion and it works like a charm. I can actually run two Linux VM's running an Oracle RAC cluster and winders. It's a MAC PRO w/9GB of memory.
Owen Posted June 2, 2008 #6 Posted June 2, 2008 Since you already have a bootcamp partition with windows on it... just install vmware fusion and it will take care of the rest...
Royal05Steve Posted June 3, 2008 Author #7 Posted June 3, 2008 Our tech services dept has just finished about 400 ibooks using parallels to run XP PRO and by all reports from the tchs it runs well. We have about 1000 ibooks running bootcamp also, and when I askt the techs they like parallels mostly cause you dont have to reboot, but be prepared to add a bunch of ram. I am not a desktop guy just a lowly network admin so I get none of the fun toys anymore, so I am not totally up to speed on what they did , but if you need more info I will go over and ask them. Brian:cool10: I loaded it tonight and it seems to be running good. We will see as time goes on. Thanks for the input
Royal05Steve Posted June 3, 2008 Author #8 Posted June 3, 2008 Since you already have a bootcamp partition with windows on it... just install vmware fusion and it will take care of the rest... I already have Parallels, so loaded it tonight. Seems to work good with 1gb on my iMac 20" I will see how it runs there before I put it on my 24"
Royal05Steve Posted June 3, 2008 Author #9 Posted June 3, 2008 I run VMWare Fusion and it works like a charm. I can actually run two Linux VM's running an Oracle RAC cluster and winders. It's a MAC PRO w/9GB of memory. A little more extreme then my setup:whistling: I loaded it tonight, so we will see. So far so good. Even with 1gb of memory. Got to love the efficiency of these Macs
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