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I'd like to run a virtualized Ubuntu instance under Mac OS X (10.6). I've used VirtualBox in the past, but am looking for something that will be faster, and don't mind paying for either Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion.
Does anyone have experience running Linux guests under either or both programs? I'm primarily interested in doing software development on the Linux guest installation, but I'm also very concerned with the performance and responsiveness the guest OS.
I have a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro (2.66 GHz i5, 8 GB of RAM, NVIDIDA GeForce GT 330M).
Thanks!
What exactly will you be using this VM for? A VM can only get you so much performance. – vcsjones – 2010-12-29T02:34:18.573
Primarily software development (including potentially compiling medium-sized bodies of software) in the guest OS. The dimensions of performance I'm most concerned about are 1) UI responsiveness of the guest OS 2) performance of building software on the guest OS, and 3) resource footprint on the host OS (I don't want my host OS to become unusable while a compile on the guest OS is going in the background). – grumbler – 2010-12-29T03:33:37.877