Fusion vs Parallels?

[MythicFrost]

Alright I see, it's hard to say because I've never used Fusion but Parallels has been great for me, IIRC they say Parallels 5 is up to 22% faster than Fusion 3.0.
I'm not sure if VMWare offer this but Parallels can be bought online and downloaded if you don't want or have time to go to the store, that's what I did and paid to get the DVD sent as well.
Took about 2-4 hours before they verified it and then I started downloading (I think it was roughly 250MB).

 

[PreetinderBajwa]

How ?

I've bought Parallels 5 and I love it, according to them they are up to 22% faster than Fusion 3. I've never tried Fusion myself, but with your setup I'd do this:
Install XP 32-bit into Boot Camp, and create a virtual machine from the Boot Camp partition, that way you can boot into Windows if necessary and you can also run it side by side with your Mac.
I don't know if you can create a virtual machine from a Boot Camp partition in Fusion 3, so you might want to check that out first.

If you only have a Intel Core 2 Duo processor, running Fusion may not be an option since you have to dedicate a processor core to the VM, you'd have one for your Mac and one for your virtual machine.
Is that enough for your kind of video editing, is it serious stuff?

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/features/faster/

Hi,

Can you guide me to how did you do this ? a link a tutorial or just your experience

I will be setting up Bootcamp for the first time and, though I have Parallels 4 on my UMBP, I will be interested in doing something similar to what you have described on my MBA Rev B.

Thanks

Preetinder

 

[MythicFrost]

Alright but I don't remember that well, it's pretty simple though. I recommend you do external backups + Time Machine backups before you start just to be safe.
I think you can insert your Windows DVD and Boot Camp Assistant will run, but if not run Boot Camp Assistant, follow the prompts and make a second partition for Windows with a certain amount of dedicated space.

It should ask you if you want to install Windows etc..

After it reboots and you are in the Windows installer, you need to format the Boot Camp partition to NTFS, make sure you don't format your OSX partition, make note of the exact size of the Boot Camp partition you make, it should be very close to that when you're looking through the list of partitions to choose from in Windows (I've done a 40GB partition and it showed as 40.9GB IIRC).

After that click continue and let it install, after it boots up insert your Snow Leopard or Leopard DVD (depending on what you are running) and let it install drivers for stuff.
Then you're set, I'd find a good online tutorial or guide, I may have left some things out that are important that I've forgotten but I don't think so.

After that run Parallels, you can choose an option to create a VM from Boot Camp.

Have fun!

 

[PreetinderBajwa]

Some part done !

Alright but I don't remember that well, it's pretty simple though. I recommend you do external backups + Time Machine backups before you start just to be safe.
I think you can insert your Windows DVD and Boot Camp Assistant will run, but if not run Boot Camp Assistant, follow the prompts and make a second partition for Windows with a certain amount of dedicated space.

It should ask you if you want to install Windows etc..

After it reboots and you are in the Windows installer, you need to format the Boot Camp partition to NTFS, make sure you don't format your OSX partition, make note of the exact size of the Boot Camp partition you make, it should be very close to that when you're looking through the list of partitions to choose from in Windows (I've done a 40GB partition and it showed as 40.9GB IIRC).

After that click continue and let it install, after it boots up insert your Snow Leopard or Leopard DVD (depending on what you are running) and let it install drivers for stuff.
Then you're set, I'd find a good online tutorial or guide, I may have left some things out that are important that I've forgotten but I don't think so.

After that run Parallels, you can choose an option to create a VM from Boot Camp.

Have fun!

Hi Friends,

So last night installed bootcamp.. bootcamp drivers didn't automatically install (kept on saying doesn't support 64bit ? I installed Win 7 Pro 64 bit) so had to go through apple's install disk and manually install as many as I could... few didn't install or I didn't install them...namely IDTSigmatel, Realtecsetup, NvidiaGraphicsMobileVista64, NVidiaGraphicasDesktopVista 64.

Then tried to import into the Parallels 3... it recognized the bootcamp and started to work on it, after step 1 where it does something a dialogue box error cropped up and it says repairing and then can't repair and hence no luck accessing my BOOT camp through Parallels :-(

Anyone faced a similar issues ?

Look forward to your help to make this all work like a charm

Thanks

Preetinder

 

[MythicFrost]

Is your MBA 64-bit capable? otherwise it should have done just fine.
Windows installs, you insert the SL/Leopard DVD and it should ask you what to do and click "auto run" or "run", and it should start the installer, if not you should be able to right click the DVD in the Computer folder and select "Autoplay" or something.

I assume you are on Leopard because you are using Parallels 3 which is not supported on Snow Leopard IIRC.
What install disk were you using? Was it the MacBook Air Install Disk?