{"id":278,"date":"2014-08-26T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:36:09","slug":"vmware-or-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"VMWare or Parallels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Parallels released the new version of their Mac virtualization software recently and it reportedly works under OS X Yosemite (10.10), I decided to give it a go. \u00c2\u00a0Converting my Linux VMs was a breeze, but converting my Windows 7 VM wasn&#8217;t as much fun. \u00c2\u00a0The Windows VM converted perfectly, Windows itself on the other hand decided it needed to re-authorize. \u00c2\u00a0Once I sorted all that mess out (another story for another time), I was able to get back to work.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;m pleased with the performance of Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac. \u00c2\u00a0It seems to be running better than when I was using VMWare Fusion 6.0. \u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t have any solid numbers on this, but the fans in my Mac seem to not run as often under Parallels. \u00c2\u00a0Booting my main\u00c2\u00a0Linux VM is almost instantaneous, and my Windows 7 VM seems to be running really well \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Parallels released the new version of their Mac virtualization software recently and it reportedly works under OS X Yosemite (10.10), I decided to give it a go. \u00c2\u00a0Converting my Linux VMs was a breeze, but converting my Windows 7 VM wasn&#8217;t as much fun. \u00c2\u00a0The Windows VM converted perfectly, Windows itself on the other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMWare or Parallels?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-mac-os-x","category-windows","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p561S3-4u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}