I’ve written about this several times before, since I own both products. I keep giving VMware another chance because I really want to use it, but I keep going back to Parallels for several reasons.
The major reason I can’t use VMware is because it has problems with Visual Studio Team Server. I use VSTS for [...]
Parallels vs. VMware
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Macintosh
VMware vs. Parallels revisited
February 25th, 2008 · Comments Off · Macintosh
Since Scoble praised VMware, I decide to take another look at the latest version. I own both VMware and Parallels, but I currently use Parallels.
The new VMware converter made it easy to move my Parallels VM to VMware, so I was able to run my most recent Windows VM with it. Although there’s very [...]
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Parallels Compressor + Split Disk
January 29th, 2008 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
I like to use split disks with my Parallels virtual machines, since it makes backing up the drive image a lot faster and easier. It seems that Parallels Compressor isn’t able to properly compact a split disk, though.
Today I decided to run Compressor since my Windows XP virtual disk was over 15 GB, even though [...]
