Virtual Machine Hardware Specification Parallels Workstation virtualizes a full set of the standard PC hardware including:
CPU Pentium II or AMD Duron; Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset; RAM up to 1500 Mb; VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support; 1.44 Mb floppy drive (mapped to a physical drive or to an image file); Up to four IDE devices, that may be either virtual hard drives (from 20 Mb up to 128 Gb each, mapped to image file), or CD/DVD-ROM drives (mapped to physical drive or to image file), or both hard drives and CD/DVD-ROM drives; Up to four serial (COM) ports (mapped to real port, to pipe or to output file); Up to three bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports (mapped to real port, to printer or to output file); Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL8029; Generic Parallels Virtual network card; AC97 compatible sound card; 104-key Windows enhanced keyboard; PS/2 wheel mouse.
不知道該不該這樣比較 但在我的Intel P!!! 雙處理器老PC上試用VMware可以模擬出一台完整的P!!!單處理器小PC 在更高等級的雙核處理器上使用Parallels Workstation卻只能模擬出CPU Pentium II or AMD Duron? 可是看別人的使用影片用起來又很順的樣子
目前可以這麼粗略比較~ Boot Camp 優點是能全速執行 XP (或其他 OS);缺點是不能同時跑雙系統。 Parallels Workstation 優點是能在 Mac OS X 上同時跑另一個 OS;缺點是速度較慢(但尚能接受),僅限 Intel Macs。 Virtual PC 優點是在 PPC Mac 上能同時跑雙系統;缺點是極慢、慢到不行。