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VirtualBox on the Mac is extremely slow. Also Parallels has much better integration with the Mac host (automatic shared folders, syncing program shortcuts betwe
by octopoc 5y ago
VirtualBox on the Mac is extremely slow. Also Parallels has much better integration with the Mac host (automatic shared folders, syncing program shortcuts between the host and the guest, etc.).
- Anunayj 5y agoHow does Parallels work? Why is it faster?
- ace2358 5y agoCan confirm that it’s slow. I tried so many different things, different GFX cards while trying to run Windows (xp, 7, 10) on my Mac Pro (2012, 2 x 6 core 3.4ghz, 128gb ram). The only one that runs well in virtual box was XP. Everything else had extremely slow disk accès, graphics performance and cpu. It took like an hour to boot windows 10. Parallels was what I would consider native speed with better features. That was really disappointing as I wanted to use OSS. Running links in Vbox seems fine though and I run a few vms 24/7.