Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Creating a restore "partition" on DVD (SL 10.6) Date: 4 Oct 2015 16:06:34 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <5607248c$0$16450$b1db1813$e2fc9064@news.astraweb.com> <560c8c3a$0$7237$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net E3dPvsarFLFnH4VDnSmXEgP+8psOWKw3OHLKeurY9EJkHue9hq Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= sha1:10cm+zgcbuDG6JdQBUWxw/V19Ck= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.0 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:81457 Alan Browne 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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR