Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
- From: Dalton Hamilton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:10:39 -0400
Michael -
I'm away from my MacPro on vacation so I can't test this. The last
version of Parallels I tried was about 3 or 4 weeks ago ( I believe
it was the 2nd release to support the MacPros ) and it required that
you let Parallels configure the MacPro bios to a 2GByte limit --
which meant that even when not running Parallels OSX would only be
able to see 2GByte of RAM.
Also, I could not enable VT-X support support in Parallels. When I
enabled the VT-X switch and then clicked the run (green triangle) I
got a message saying that the firmware of the Intel Chips does has
virtualization disabled on all but one chip. Then it said it will
attempt to run Parallels in virtualization on that one chip and I saw
the DOS window and then would get a hard kernel panic (that I haven't
seen in years in OSX).
Parallels support personnel was emailing me about this and recognized
the problem but they have not emailed me in a few weeks and I haven't
gone to their web to see if there are any new releases. I did update
the MacPro with a firmware update that Apple pushed out for them but
it didn't resolve the issue.
My questions are has Parallels fixed these two issues???
Dalton Hamilton
On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Michael Pike wrote:
Ok.. as you may or may not know, Parallels released their second
version last night... here is an unofficial benchmark (and I cannot
believe it, had to get toilet paper):
XP (powered off) to fully boot and logged in: 9 seconds
XP (suspended and click to run): 3 seconds!
These were both fresh reboots so nothing was cached on the Mac... I am
also running FileVault.
My Hardware config:
MacPro Quad 3GHZ
4GB RAM
Two 500GB Drives
Aiport Extreme
Bluetooth Keyboard and Bluetooth Mighty Mouse
30 inch Cinema HD display
The MacPro running parallels out performs a STAND ALONE Dell P4 3.2GHZ
by about 5 times (takes almost 50 seconds to boot into the XP login
screen), let alone another 25-30 seconds after you log in to actually
finish whatever it does.
I have in my life never run a system so fast... even running older
apps that require Rosetta (like photoshop and Adobe Acrobat) start in
like 6 seconds.. almost not even noticable that it runs under
Rosetta... and a universal binary??? forget about it, opens instantly.
mike
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