Yes, the audio leaves a lot to be desired when virtualizing, and I heard on
some podcast that broadcasters want to start virtualizing. I would imagine the
setup on the macs isn't set up to support the virtualization support the
processors have, so you're taking the overhead. One would think 2 out of 4 gigs
of ram should be enough, Windows 32 bit can't really use much more than 3
anyways, so it must be in the audio drivers that make it choppy.
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From: Sarah Alawami
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: parelells a complete waist of my time
exactlaly. and th esuddering never went away. it just got worse until jaws
would uct out whole words.
See the link to the recording I posted.
On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I haven't played much with Win7, just XP under fusion. Just after booting
it does seem to beat on my hard drive for a few minutes making Jaws stutter,
but that clears up shortly. So if you gave 2GB to Win7, how much is left for
OSX? 2GB?
CB
Sarah Alawami wrote:
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
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