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Vesperal

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Oct 23, 2009
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Greetings,

I plan to buy a 27" iMac when the new ones become available.

My job in IT currently requires a lot of lab work with virtual machines (5-8 running simultanously, so I was wondering if anyone here used their iMacs with many VMs on Parallels or Fusion.
Since the iMacs are no less powerful than any HP/Dell/homemade workstation I thought I could switch without this beeing a problem, but I wanted a power-user point of view.

Thanks :)
 
I've got an 8gig c2d mbp at home that I run fedora vm's on in fusion. Each vm is configured with 2gig and one processor. With 2 vm's open everything is fine, but with 3 the system runs low on memory.

It's going to depend on what you want to do with the vm's. Running 8 vm's on 16gig would probably be a bit much for the system.
 
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