Could my point be made any more clearly then that?
I run 2 copies of 3186 side by side on a mac mini, both running FC6 as virtual web servers... running great, very stable (albeit light load of course).
I run XP on a daily basis for .NET development, and it runs Oracle 10g... amazingly fast, faster then the server farm at the large corp I dev for (sadly).
I haven't had a parallels crash in I don't know how long.
I even took an old Biztalk on Windows 2003 VMware image from Windows (ugh, I know, don't even say it) and ran it through the transporter, and it booted in parallels, and ran perfectly... ??? I could not believe it. It was impressive to say the least.
And finally, since that worked so well, I took an old Windows 2000 Dev Environment image from VPC and transported it too... once again, it ran in parallels faster and better then it ever did.
Parallels is just an impressive piece of software, and the best VM solution I have used, and I have used them all (even that - gulp - QEMU - <shudder>, it was the early osx86 era, what can I say, I was desperate).
What in the hell are people doing to #@#% up their parallels so bad they have to bitch constantly? Randomly deleting files in /System/Library?
How about ignoring the hopelessly lost complainers and getting your sane users a new toy to play with?
Last edited: Mar 10, 2007