[Discussion] Parallels - a rave review

[Kev]

felmon john davis wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Kev wrote:
>
>   
>> I have used Parallels on a Linux host for over 12mths now, and it /is/ 
>> as good as they say.
>>     
>
> how much memory do you have to have? I have 512MB. could I run XP on 
> that box (SUSE 10.0) or do I need to add memory?

Obviously more is always better where memory and disk space are 
concerned.  I'm sure you could run one eXPee guest in your SuSE host, 
but I wouldn't like to guess the performance.  eXPee and SuSE will each 
run in a 256meg system, but you guess for yourself whether or not the 
performance would be satifactory.

RAM is very cheap now-a-days.  To bump it to a gig would cost what, 
$50.00 at the /absolute outside/.  On a local bargain board
http://bargainboard.navada.com.au/admin.cfm?display=Computers
I can regularly get 2nd hand 512meg DIMMs for $Oz30.00 each.  There must 
be something similar near you.

I would suggest that if Parallels won't do what you want on your current 
hardware, then no other VM software will either.

Cheers
Kev

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