Hello everyone,
sorry for my English but I’m trying to write an article for all over the world.
The goal is only one: VIRTUALIZE in the best way Apple Mac OS X 10.7 LION (the license permits two virtual copy).
My hardware is a mid-2010 13″ Apple MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo and 6GB of RAM.
I’m trying with VMware Fusion 4 and Parallels Desktop 7 (Oracle VirtualBox is the only one clear that write NO SUPPORT for QE/CI: see http://iiju.co.uk/mac/).
The two products advertise extraordinary 3D-performance and I thinks they are great so I investigate this numbers are only for Microsoft Windows and only with specific Graphics Driver installed.
So when you install a Guest O.S. ALWAYS install “VMWare tools” or “Parallels Tools”.
Memory Allocation
VMware Fusion 4 allocate the full amount of RAM you say in the panel so if you dedicate 2GB (which is the minimum for Lion boot) when the Guest starts it have this amount fixed to him.
Parallels Desktop 7 use smart allocation and give to the virtual machine the only amount of RAM you are using.
The problem
The major software such as iWork, Logic Studio, Final Cut Studio, Avid Studio and Adobe Creative Suite uses Apple Quartz Extreme/Core Image (QE/CI) graphics acceleration technology.
Where is the problem?
The graphics driver provided with VMware Tools and Parallels Tools do not supports Apple Quartz Extreme/Core Image (QE/CI) so you can’t use this software.
In iWork is very evident because the software install but when you run Pages, Numbers or Keynote a blank (white) page appears in the central panel.
Does everyone have a workaround for this?
I’ve seen that whit “OpenGL Profiler” (that came with Xcode) you can pass a flag to the selected application but it is very boring and you have to do this every application launch.
VMware
Alternative VMWare Graphics Driver for VMware
There is a 3rd party video driver look here http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/ but at today it doesn’t support QE/CI. It is very quickly but sometimes the image and the mouse are not in the same place.
Geekbench
Using Geekbench 2.2.3 with 32bit test:
Real machine: 3352 http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/512323
Parallels Desktop 7: 2428 (-28%) http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/512325
VMware Fusion 4: 2475 (-26%) http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/512332


























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