The amount of hard disk chatter going on when I use Fusion is much much lower. I don’t know why the extra ~50MB of REAL memory is being used but 50MB is nothing to worry about. Parallels used 1083MB REAL and 1631MB VIRTUAL memory.įusion used 1135MB REAL and 1639MB VIRTUAL memory. IE via with search return of “Parallels vs Fusion”.VIClient (x3) connected to 3 different ESXi systems.Microsoft Outlook 2007 connected to test Exchange 2003 server. I can’t do that with Parallels unfortunately.  I can create these VPS systems on my laptop, work system, home desktop, and move things back and forth.  No, it isn’t seamless by anymeans, but it is doable.  As I work and play with ESX (and ESXi), I am able to move virtual images between my Fusion installation and my production deployments pretty easily.  I’ll have to give it a try later.įusion is more compatible with my world.  Found it!  You need to use the Parallels Image Tool to do this.  The Parallels KB is lacking in information except to say the tools are no longer required (or something to that affect).  How do you save disk space by compressing the disk image and removing unused blocks?  I’ll have to dig around. The lack of Parallels tools controls is a little odd to take in.  And I do mean faster, upwards of 2x faster than Fusion booting (as close as possible) the same installation of Windows XP Pro.  This has always been the case and I do not know why. Parallels boots Windows XP Professional faster. I did not use any Coherence or Unity configurations.
#Parallels image tool mac os
Host system is Mac Pro with 2×2 (4) 3.0Ghz cores, 5GB RAM, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6, Time Machine was turned off for the duration of the testing, Safari open only to update this blog post, no other tabs or windows open, and finally, terminal was open so I could get measurements. VMware VI client (I use a lot of ESXi systems).Windows XP Professional with SP2 applied, and fully updated patches (). I will try to not let this hamper my comments.  This is quite frustrating as one of the great points of virtualization of a system is that the underlying hardware isn’t changing.
#Parallels image tool upgrade
First, I had a problem with Parallels during an upgrade on my laptop – I was forced to reactivate Windows after the virtual conversion was completed.