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- Parallels desktop for mac students. New Parallels Toolbox utilities featured in all editions of Parallels Desktop® 12 for Mac make it easy to perform 20 common tasks with simple single-function tools for both Mac® and Windows® virtual machines (VMs). Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro and Business Edition subscribers, and Parallels Toolbox for Mac subscribers, also receive free updates of additional tools which will be made available every quarter. Initial features include:
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The new version 12 of Parallels Desktop For Mac has a new configuration option. In the configuration panel > Hardware > CPU & Memory > Advanced Settings >
Hypervisor
is a popup menu for:- Hypervisor
- Parallels
- Apple
Which one do I should I be using when running macOS Sierra as the guest OS?
What exactly is the difference, the pros-and-cons of each?
The Parallels app Help has no mention of this new setting.
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The Apple Hypervisor is a user-centric lightweight https://renewanalysis570.weebly.com/blog/how-to-use-parallels-desktop-11-for-mac. hypervisor that Apple provides so developers don't have to write kernel extensions (KEXTs). From everything that I have gathered, this is primarily for a dev environment
From the Hypervisor documentation on Apple Developer:
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The Hypervisor framework provides C APIs for interacting with virtualization technologies in user-space, without the need for writing kernel extensions (KEXTs). As a result, apps created using this framework are suitable for distribution on the Mac App Store.
The Parallels Hypervisor is a more robust Hypervisor that isn't 'user centric.' Meaning that it can be invoked at the OS level, not just at the user level. You also get much more robust features like the Adaptive Hypervisor Technology that allows you to allocate CPU resources across the host and guest VM's
My take..
If you are looking to run a Window 10 VM for testing or a specific app, then either Hypervisor will probably work just fine.
If you are looking to load up a Linux host for dev work that you want accessible whether or not you are at your machine, you probably want the Parallels Hypervisor.
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This post in Parallels Forum clearly states to use Parallels Hypervisor:
Hi, Apple hypervisor comes short of the following matters comparing to the Parallels hypervisor:
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- Performance: slower on VM startup and shutdown
- Stability: may crash more frequently
- Functionality loss: no PMU, nested virtualization, thermal monitoring, energy profiling
Parallels Hypervisor is the best one.
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Apple are in the process of reducing a developers ability to introduce kexts (kernel extensions) onto your device. They are doing this because software houses that rely on kexts have as a rule proven more than capable of producing sub optimal systems capable of destabilising a Mac. Both VMware and Parallels use kexts; both companies products are easily capable of destabilising a Mac and both companies produce sub optimal software. I have used both VMWare (Fusion) and Parallels on a Mac; out of the two I found Fusion to be the most stable.
CPU usage across both products? Well, Windows if you leave it to 'idle' has a nasty habit of updating. So that's going to bugger up any preconceived ideas of which system is the most efficient. I've seen some 'framework' virtualisation applications cropping up and I have to say slim is best; when they weigh in at around 20mb instead of nearly half a gig, I think that speaks for itself. Veertu Desktop was the first to come onto the App Store and weighed 13MB. Parallels Desktop 'Lite' is 234MB?!? Why? Veertu Desktop was a little crude, but it ran like Usain Bolt with NO evidence of ANY hypervisor instabilities. It's a real shame they didn't finish the job off.
The hypervisor framework (released in Yosemite, around 3 years ago), will enable software suppliers to get virtualisation products into the Mac App Store. The framework is not for developers, it is a mechanism to be used by developers to get you the products you want. There are quite a number of free products now appearing that support this framework. As a developer I cannot wait to see more virtualisation products to come out that I can run Windows on (for software development). I look forward to kext free virtualisation. The compromise is likely to be a reduction or removal of gimmickry that burdens the host system. So, no fancy window skins; who's interested in that anyway? No 'side by side' (the hidden windows desktop); again not interested I always run in a window or full screen. No accelerated gaming, though I'm not sure on that one. But, if you seek a gaming machine go native or build one. I seek stable, optimised, fast and efficient virtualisation. Currently neither VMWare or Parallels supply this.
Parallels for mac windows memory. I was considering trying out Parallels Desktop Lite; but if it's bug free and works, why do I need a £60 per yer subscription? By European law, if the product is buggy I'm entitled to a fix; I shouldn't have to pay for it. I'm not keen on companies whose business model is to bind me into a subscription because they're providing me with buggy bloated software.
(@basil) update: this is parallels lite running high sierra
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From my own experience on a retina Macbook Pro 15' 2015An idling Windows 10 VM running VS 2015 on VMWare Fusion is around 100% CPUthe same on Parallels Hypervisor is around 50~60with Apple Hypervisor, it's about 20%.
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Crashes and lockups happen more or less as frequently whatever vm software or hypervisor I use.
You should try either setting and check what fits better for your use.
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