<div dir="ltr">Dear Rudy,<div><br></div><div>Parallels and Fusion are slightly different to VirtualBox as they can be considered similar to container-based or OS-level virtualisation, rather than full-blown hypervisor-based virtualisation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With regards to VirtualBox graphics performance. Did you install the Guest Additions in the guest OS, as well as increasing available video memory and enabling acceleration in the VM settings? I find that these improve things greatly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I certainly agree re Xfce. Hence why Xubuntu is so great for lower end machines/laptops.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 3 August 2014 16:31, Rudy J. Richardson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjrich@umich.edu" target="_blank">rjrich@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
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fyi, I have compared Parallels 9, VMware Fusion 6, and VB 4.3.14 on my MacPro 6.1 under OS X 10.9.4.<br>
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Each virtualization program works, but for good graphics performance, Parallels 9 is far superior to the other two. The graphics performance of VB is the poorest by far. I have tested this with linux (Ubuntu 12.04, 12.1, 14.04, Mint 13, 17, and Windows 7 guests.<br>
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Regarding DEs for linux, I get the best results with Xfce. KDE also works, and I have found instabilities in Cinnamon and MATE.<br>
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