[Discussion] Parallels - a rave review

[felmon john davis]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Kev wrote:

> 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.

ah, thanks. I wasn't thinking how to figure things but of course, the 
minimum for XP is the baseline. and I know that's barely enough for 
XP.

> RAM is very cheap now-a-days.  To bump it to a gig would cost what, 
> $50.00 at the /absolute outside/. 

I am not so sure. I have an old motherboard; I had the impression it 
can sometimes be costly to get stuff that fits. 

but at this point the next step for me won't be upgrading memory, it 
will be upgrading the whole system! 

problem is, I'm kind of content with it, sigh.

> 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 will have to look. the last time I half looked it was in a local 
shop and as I said, the sticks seemed a bit costly.

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

fair enough. read about Parallels some months ago, and when it came up 
here again, was tempted to play.

I'm ok now. it's passed.

F.

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