Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3288 mails)

[Tom Patton <thpnalb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's been a year or two back, but Parallels was very stable for me.  I
see they've won several awards this year, perhaps it should be on your
candidate list...?

Tom in NM

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 21:10 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 5:25 PM, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)
> <andreil1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> >
> > I have a tough choice. Client have an Intel-based Quad-Core PC with SuSE 
> > 10.3,
> > and time to time (~1 - 1.5 hours day) needs Win XP with Adobe Photoshop,
> > InDesign, Dreamveawer and some weird video editing programs. He does not 
> > want
> > to reboot he;s workstation in "clean" WinXP-only mode.
> >
> > The obvious cantenders for virtualization are: VMware, VirtualBox and Xen
> > (KVM/QEMU does not suitable because it lacks guest OS video acceleration).
> >
> > The question is - which of these virtualization solutions will offer best
> > performance, especially in terms of graphic/video screen redraw, sound
> > latency, and 3D graphic ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
>
> As to VMware:
> The free version, VMware Server, is NOT optimized for desktop use.  It
> works, but not the way you're describing.  You would need to consider
> VMware Workstation and I don't have any experience with that.
>
> Greg
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