Parallel's Desktop XP & VMWare Fusion Vista Situation (Two different questions I have) / Thank you

[WinLinMac01]

I installed Windows XP on Parallels last night, and compared to Windows Vista on VMWare Fusion, Parallels had an incredibly different result. It just seemed so much faster than VMWare. Is there any reason to this why?

Also, is there any way I can run VMWare Fusion Virtual HD in Parallels? Would appreciate this. If this is not possible, is there a way I can increase my HD space for Vista in VMWare? Or do I have to treat this as a actual Hard Drive and assume that you cannot increase your HD space? Please help.

Thank you all very much in advance. =)

[WinLinMac01]

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[WinLinMac01]

Can somebody please advise me. Appreciate any help, thank you.

[WinLinMac01]

oh well, looks like this is not possible. =)

[Puttabong]

I really don't know, hence I can't answer, sorry. However, it seems to depend on the Machine which Application runs faster.

For me it's VMWare Fusion, which is running much more smooth than Parallels.

[WinLinMac01]

thank you for being honest Puttabong. Still appreciate your response, =)

[roisoft]

I donīt like Parallels, I prefer VMware, i think itīs more faster and smooth but itīs only my opinion :)... 512mb of ram are enough for XP but Vista needs a lot of resources .... if you edit your settings in Vmware you can add another hard drive for your virtual machine only click over "+" and thatīs all, in windows you can resize the drive with virtual disk manager and diskpart from cmd but iīm sorry i donīt know if itīs possible expand the main HD in mac.

If you have a XP/Vista drive/partition (not virtual) you can use it like a BootCamp drive from VMware or Parallels.

[WinLinMac01]

I'll see what can be done. thanks for your response.

[rveronico]

roisoft:If you have a XP/Vista drive/partition (not virtual) you can use it like a BootCamp drive from VMware or Parallels.
this is exactly what I have done and it works perfectly (vmware fusion / xp pro sp2) but xp cannot see my other hard disk (sata).
Do you know how could I do?

If im reading this correctly your other harddisk is your mac os x harddisk? thats probally because its a HFS+ formatted so windows cant see it.

[roisoft]

You can add shared folders from your mac disk, you need edit the settings of your virtual machine and in xp open network, protocol tcp/ip, advanced, wins, enable netbios....

[WinLinMac01]

I would never use shared folder in "my" system. Crashed my system badly in my last install.

roisoft:You can add shared folders from your mac disk, you need edit the settings of your virtual machine and in xp open network, protocol tcp/ip, advanced, wins, enable netbios.

[rveronico]

hackintosh4life , no I mean a third hard disk NTFS. Ar roisoft stated the only way I succeded to access it is through shared folders, but I was wondering if there was some other way to do it I was missing. Thanks for your reply

[gaz919]

I can access mac drives in windows using macdrive program, leopard cannot see my win drives.

in fusion I can just drag and drop from mac to windows and viceversa, after installing vmware tools.

There is a program to allow leopard to read ntfs but im not sure what its called, I use hardware raid on my vista, so leopard doesn't even recognise the raid so I gave up.

Good Luck

Now I software raid my leopard so macdrive can't see it anymore. So I give up again.
It all still works with fusion though.

[WinLinMac01]

thank you @ gaz919