In article <jollyroger-F5EA2B.10572730072008@news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article <sgs094ti6kdhld7371qa2ue6afmrt1hoss@4ax.com>, > Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote: > > > Secondly, real disk partitions are faster than simulated disk > > partitions, and they need less care to optimize them. > > While real hardware is a bit faster, when it comes to vmWare Fusion > performance, it's not *that* much faster (see the link below). > > > I don't have > > years of experience using VMWare Fusion for Mac, but I have a lot of > > years of experience using VMWare for other platforms, and in order to > > have a good disk access in their simulated disk partitions you should > > periodically do a compacting and defragmenting process on them. And > > these processes aren't without any risk. > > The numbers show vmWare's disk performance is very close to native disk > performance: > > <http://tinyurl.com/2egwwy> > > Parallels Desktop, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired, and > could use some improvement.
More benchmarks here:
<http://tinyurl.com/yvfy9k>
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