Sunday, February 8, 2009 11:06 PM Central Time
Virtualized Performance Part 2: Parallels
Posted by Justin

A couple of weeks ago I posted a story about virtualized performance where I did a comparison between VMware Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox.

I wanted to update that story to include some details on Windows performance when Parallels is added to the mix.

Interestingly enough, Parallels really isn't that much further behind Fusion in terms of average boot time. To be precise, the difference is about .8 seconds between the two. Probably not that noticeable to the average user.

It comes down to features in that case. I also think there is a lot to be said about the stability of Fusion given VMware's years of experience and product maturity.

This will be a very important year in the Parallels development cycle. We'll see what they have up their sleeves.

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