What speed penalties do Parallels and VMware Fusion suffer from being run alongside Mac OS? It should be nothing like Microsoft Virtual PC, right?
Performance is nothing like the Virtual PC days. When Macs transitioned to Intel, virtualization became a lot less painful. Performance will of course depend on what you're using it for, but it's fairly snappy for most apps that are not graphics intensive.
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It should be nothing like Microsoft Virtual PC
not totally familiar but if this is the microsoft virtulization effort i ma thinking about it would be nice to try out new apps before buying them
He's referring to the (now very old) Virtual PC software made by Connectix that ran on PowerPC Macs. It was kind of painful emulating an Intel CPU on a PowerPC chip, but we didn't have a lot of options and just dealt with the slowness.
Microsoft bought the product in 2003 (I think) and released one more version before killing the product and making it Windows only. This was more or less the genesis of Microsoft's virtualization technology.
This is now long enough ago to feel like a past life, ack.