Boot Camp vs Parallels vs VMware Fusion Benchmarks

[thermodynamic]

Hmm... I wish WINE worked better.

Ditto.

Or Crossover Office for that matter... those would be best, but Parallels 7 I've found to be formidable...

I am going to a vmware bootcamp next week for vmware training and I will see what information they have on this subject.

Thanks!

I've been trying to find benchmarks of XP vs 7 in a virtual session and everything I've found compares XP and *ista. Vista fared poorly in VMs, but I'm keen on trying Win7 and seeing how Office 2010 (w/Visio) interacts. XP is okay, but if Win7 offers a more refined and faster experience than XP, I'd eat up the extra disk space and use it instead... especially on my MBP!

 

[acray]

Everything else is definitely not equal in my case, but I have an XP, 7, and Ubuntu VMs on my MBP.

Out of those three Windows 7 performs the best. And it is what I use the most.

It has it's glitches now and then, but it runs better than I remember XP running back when it was my primary. Though comparing Win7 running in Parallels 7 and on a new MBP to running XP in Parallels 3 on a MBP that is a few generations older/slower...

If I took the time to do semi-controlled test like my write up in 2008 between XP and 7, I don't know which one would be faster. But frankly I'm not interested. Win7/Parallels works well enough so that I'm not cursing the hourglass too often, and I prefer 7 over XP.

Office 2010 works well. I don't have Visio installed, but I know i've used Visio 2007 in a VM so I'd bet 2010 works as well.

 

[adder7712]

Nah, I would run Windows in Boot Camp. Native hardware support.