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How is Parallels virtualization different from normal virtualization?
I started thinking about our computers.. why we cannot run two operating systems on the same computer at the same time - without virtualization. We have plenty of Ram these days and often 2 or 4 Central Processing Units. Surely someone could come up with a way to make this work.
So I started reading about something the Mac came out with in 2008, Parallel virtualization. It's not quite what I was looking for and i'm not sure I understand it but it claims you can have two OS's running side by side, not one inside of another like we do with VirtualBox. They say that this way of running the systems is much faster than the VirtualBox or VMware solutions.
Can anyone tell me more about this concept and does Windows have anything like it? The info I got was from here. What is Parallels virtualization? How does it compare to emulation? @ EveryMac.com
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Just found out the same company makes this software for Windows. http://www.parallels.com/products/workstation/ They also have an Extreme version that enables graphics support over all VM platforms. Anyone tried this software? How do you think it compares to VMware and VirtualBox.. is it faster?
These tools are not cheap, But they do have trial versions you can test. I think I'll try one.
http://www.parallels.com/download/
Last edited by Dark Rider; 25 Jul 2012 at 00:21.