Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6)

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6)
Date	2015-10-04 16:06 +0000
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Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-10-03 18:23, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> 
>> VirtualBox didn't require any trickery, but it's rather buggy.
> 
> It's also, per benchmarks, the slowest of the VM managers.
> 
> I'd rather pay for something that's well maintained even if it costs me 
> about $60 every 3 - 4 years.
> 
> Parallels has been ranked fastest in most respects for the last 5 years 
> or so.
> 
> But I've been using VMWare Fusion for longer than that so I stick to it.

Yep. I've owned versions of both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion over
the years. Both are way faster and less buggy than VirtualBox, and are way
better integrated with the operating system as well. The only reason I went
with VirtualBox for 10.6 is Fusion refuses to let you install 10.6 client
in a VM.

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Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-30 21:28 -0400
  Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-30 21:58 -0400
  Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 08:09 -0600
    Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-01 16:55 +0000
      Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 12:02 -0600
        Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-03 18:10 +0000
          Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 12:18 -0600
            Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-03 22:23 +0000
              Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-04 08:56 -0400
                Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-04 16:06 +0000
                Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-04 18:47 -0400
                Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-04 18:52 -0400

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