Virtual Disk requires twice as much CPU?

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by blackmac, Jul 15, 2007.

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What do you use Parallels with on your Mac?

Poll closed Aug 4, 2007.

  1. Only with my Boot Camp partition

    2 vote(s)
    50.0%

  2. Only with virtual disks

    2 vote(s)
    50.0%

  3. I use both options

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  4. Not using Parallels (yet)

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. blackmac

    blackmac Junior Member

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    I had decided to convert my BootCamp VM to a Virtual disk VM because it is easier to handle and it turned out that I never really needed Bootcamp natively. So I converted the install using Transporter to virtual disk. Except for the disk type, the configurations of the VMs are identical.

    But how disappointed was I when I discovered that Paralles now eats up twice as much CPU when Windows is idle!

    I am using Parallels on a MacBook w/ 2 GHz C2D. The Bootcamp machine ususally uses 20-30 % CPU, while the Virtual disk variant eats 40-55 % CPU.

    Can this be true or may a misconfiguration be the problem?
     
    blackmac, Jul 15, 2007
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