Re: Parallels & Bootcamp; most efficient way to install Windows on new machine?

Mark Conrad <noneof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1i1b09k.16vihqwtua8qnN%%steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
%steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Firth) wrote:

Doesn't Parallels allow saved state?

Well if they don't, they should. ;-) <---

How can you make such forceful and apparantely definitive statements
about Parallels as you have, [snip]

I guess you did not see the smiley at the end of my statement above.

I guess, or rather I know that you don't understand the meaning of an
"emoticon" even though you are using one. They don't mean "I made an
incorrect statement but you have to ignore it." HTH.

...when you're now showing signs that you don't even know
about some of its most basic functions?

I venture that a lot of us do not know about Parallels basic functions,
however the posters here are doing a very good job explaining those
basic functions.

And you're doing a good job of injecting nothing other than noise, while
pretending to know somethin about the subject under discussion. And why
in the name of $DEITY do you feel a compulsion to repeat what I have
said *twice*?

Mark Conrad -
I do not see how that would keep one from needing to boot Windows from
scratch every time one moves from the OSX partition to the Windows
partition?

Steve Firth -
Because at boot time, one loads the saved image back into memory instead
of booting from scratch. Just in fact as one does on a Windows 'puter
when one uses a utility which saves the current state of Windows, such
as hibernation.

Do you lose track of arguments? I can't see what was ganed by adding our
names to the preceding paragraphs. If you didn't mess about with quoting
it woudl be obvious who was responding to what.

I do not believe it is all that simple, because saving the state of
hibernation and saving the state of an open window are both much
different than saving the state of the entire OS so that a long restart
of that OS is not necessary.

This is drivel. Saving the state of a virtual machine is not "saving the
state of an open window". Saving the state of a virtual machine is
directly comparable to entering hibernation. And there's no difference
between entering hibernation and saving the state of an entire OS
because that exactly what hibernation is.

....at least in my view, I could be wrong of course.

You are wrong.

As I recall, doing a _simulated_ restart of the Windows OS after a
normal simple installation of Parallels goes very rapidly.

What do you mean "a simulated restart"? That's nonsense.

However we must never forget that it is a _simulated_ restart of the
Windows OS.

We mustn't forget that you are talking drivel.

i.e., power is never removed from the Mac's ram.

You appear to be confused about the difference between restarting a
virtual machine and between powering down and powering up the Mac. Even
if you do a restart on a Mac power is not removed from the RAM, only if
you power down. Imagining that the important feature of a reboot is
powering down the RAM is missing the point by a mile.

....as is obvious if you have an open TextEdit document on the Mac's
desktop while the Windows OS is being restarted.

<sigh> Virtualisation means that the RAM reserved for use by the virtual
machine is not available to the host OS.

....or am I unnecessarily over-complicating things again?

No you're just talking drivel.

Have you actually used a Windows laptop?

I notice you avoided that question.
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