I tried running 7 u8nder 512 mb of ram and it hurt totally. jaws studered and it sounded owful. Here it is under 2 gigs. Sorry about the bad quality. I had to plug in another osund card just to here the thing.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672188/vmware%20fudge%20up.mp3 I ran 32 gigs and had about 2 gigs left for the ram. the windows run under 2 gigs 1 core. I have a dool core processer. Vocie over was still fine. On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > As you discovered VMWare is pretty much the only accessible virtualization > package on the mac. Sun's VirtualBox doesn't have an accessible GUI but it > does have a command line interface, so it can still be used that way. As far > as speed and performance goes, Windows beats on the hard drive a good bit so > it can take a while to un-sludge after starting up, especially if your Mac is > trying to access the drive at the same time. Also need to check how much RAM > you have left. My MacBook has 3GB so if I run 1.5GB for VMWare that only > leaves 1.5GB for the Mac. If the Mac runs out it starts doing 'virtual > memory' which swaps older chunks of RAM to the hard drive which is orders of > magnitude slower than real RAM. So, if your Windows virtual machine pounds > the hard drive and you trigger some virtual memory swapping to hard drive > you're in for a world of hurt. You might actually be faster with that 512MB > virtual machine and not triggering memory swapping. > > CB > > Sarah Alawami wrote: >> Hello. I decided to try parelells and found it to be inaccessibal with mac >> voice over. if it is can someone shead some lite on this? this is driving me >> nuts! >> >> Thaks. >> >> S >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
