What about a Mac Mini and Paralles to run RunRev?

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Sat Jan 5 15:41:49 EST 2008


Aloha Folks,

I have both Parallels and VMWare. My setup is now a MacBook with 2gb
of RAM but before that, I had only 1gb. I was a Paralells user from
the start, I even bought their product before owning a intel mac just
for taking advantadge of the discount.

So what I have to say? Well, VMware is running circles around
parallels here. I switched from parallels to vmware because my
parallels setup was taking as long as 5 minutes to boot, once it even
took half an hour to boot. VMWare is a snap, it all works fine.

Also vmware runs more systems than parallels. For example, I am able
to run Haiku on vmware while in parallels it won't boot or have
network when it boot at all. I spen't a lot in paralles and I don't
regret it, paralles served me fine thru version 1 and 2 (current
version 3 is bad for me). I am tankful for VMWare to come to my rescue
when parallels 3 became unusable for me and now I am a happy user.

I think a virtualization tool is a must have for any developer, you
can do more than run windows. For example, you can run multiple
virtual machines and thus work on client server solution using your
own virtual LAN. You can run Linux, Windows and thus test your cross
platform solution running on real OS.

I believe buying either parallels or vmware is a good investment. I'd
go for vmware and minimum of 2gb of RAM.

Cheers
andre



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