Comments on: Virtual Vista: VMware vs Virtual PC vs Parallels

By: Someone

Someone — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:41:12 +0000

I have used both VMWare and Virtual PC and i find VMWare workstation (version 6 agains vpc 2004) to be better than vpc. You have all kinds of hardware with vmware (sound, usb , NIC and the rest) with better control as you can disconnect them while the machine runs (vpc 2004 does’t support USB but 2007 does).

You can run far more guests in vmware that VPC as supported guests.
vmware let you record a movie of the display while vpc does not.
vmware allows the use of snapshots and other features that vpc doesn’t have.

you can check all these yourself and from my experince vmware workstation 6 is faster that VPC2004 (i need more testing on 2007)

the price of VMWare workstation 7 is 186 dollars (electronic download from the site)

By: Andrew Bork

Andrew Bork — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:57:13 +0000

I have vmware workstation on top of vista running Ubuntu, windows 95 (so i can play scorched planet lol), windows xp, and the windows 7 beta. All 4 work great

By: Brendon Davis

Brendon Davis — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:01:04 +0000

Hey, Your links to Dugie’s site is broken….. The new URL is http://blog.windowsvirtualization.com/uncategorized/virtual-machine-pu rity-test-can-you-get-86-or-higher

and http://blog.windowsvirtualization.com/

By: Robert Kingston

Robert Kingston — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:16:41 +0000

@Paul Szilard

VMWServer does have USB support. You just need to install a virtual USB controller (as simple as shutting the machine down, going into the Hardware Specs and adding it). Then you will have the option to pass through USB devices to the Virtual Machine.

We use it all the time for USB devices.

By: john bichard

john bichard — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:41:03 +0000

I have a fast machine running Vista and want to run Winxp . If I use Virtual PC to run Winxp will it run fast or slow.If I want speed will I have to do a dual-boot.
Many thanks
John

By: XADOA TOLOIT

XADOA TOLOIT — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:00:27 +0000

USE VIRTUAL SERVER 2005 R2 SP1

Hi guys I’m using this great free product on Vista as a host OS, I run several Vista Virtual Machines (Guest OS). Everything is supported, Aero and all the bells and whistles.

By: TAN THIAM HUAT

TAN THIAM HUAT — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:12:39 +0000

I am using VMWare 1.0.4.

I have one system here that works perfectly fine, able to detect thumb drives on both the Host (WinXP) and Guest (Ubuntu) systems.

However, on my notebook, with the Host as Windows Vista and Guest as Ubuntu, I can only see the thumb drives on my Vista. No way to see thumb drives on my Ubuntu, even when I disable the thumb drives on the Vista system.

I have been trying to get this problem solved for quite some time already.

is it the Vista problem? or will VMWare 2.0 Beta help to solve this problem

pls email me: tanthiamhuat@yahoo.com
if you have some suitable solution.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:31:11 +0000

Parallels is terribly unstable… I updated from parallels 2.5 to 3.0 in the hope of solving the problem, and it has just gotten worst… As usual, the only reason why mac zealots like parallels is the nice icon and the fancy name, and that’s probably the only good thing about it. I’m moving to wmware.

By: krisia2006

krisia2006 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:30:35 +0000

vpc may be free, but the os you run it on isn’t.
Linux host + vmware server IS free…

By: Juan F.

Juan F. — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:04:33 +0000

hi,

i have a question, i got the virtual pc but the screen of the PC is quite small. There is any way i can make it bigger, cause i have a iBook G4 12 inch screen.

thanks,

JGV