Re: Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
Re: Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
- Subject: Re: Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
- From: "Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:17:40 -0500
- Thread-topic: Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
Title: Re: Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
If you put the MacPro to sleep after starting Parallels then wake it up it will unlock the VT-X. Parallels says its a MacPro firmware bug.
Michael Smith
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From: "Michael Pike" <email@hidden>
Date: Thursday, Oct 12, 2006 1:41 pm
Subject: Re: Re: [Fed-Talk] Get the toilet paper
There is no NO Ram limit (I have 4gb), it will handle up to 16GB RAM...
The VT-x switch... I still get a notice that says it is not using
VT-x, but the deal is it's so fast, I don't think I need it...
honestly I cannot even imagine this thing being any faster, everything
on it is instant in parallels. So, if VT-x makes it faster, it must
just flicker and run. :)
They have released the 'release' version of Parallels... and all the
bugs you mentioned are fixed (RAM limit, firmware problems)... the
only thing is the Vt-x message, but, like I said, I see way better
performance than I have seen on even a stand alone PC.
It also runs under (for those of us with it) Leopard, so it will be
ready when apple releases leopard... it also supprts Windows Vista as
a guest OS now, so you can run Vista and XP on your machine.
Currently, Vista does not run under bootcamp without some system mods.
Get this, as an experiment, I used Office 2004 for Mac... of course,
it has to use Rosetta... then I used Parallels with Office 2007
Beta... the Parallels Ofice runs FASTER than the Mac Office 2004... so
the overhead with running Rosetta emulation is greater than the native
intel app running in parallels... slick stuff man.
Mike
On 10/12/06, Dalton Hamilton <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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