Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Dec 2006 11:15 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
Apple "I have tested, and continue to run in a production setting, two instances of Windows 2003 Server hosted by Parallels Desktop, running on OS X Server 10.4.8 on a 3 GHz Xserve. To skip to the punch line, it works, and it's as fast as all get-out. Parallels does not stretch the truth when it claims near-native performance; Xserve is capable of knocking off any two-socket Netburst (Pentium 4) Xeon server going back at least two years. Compared to Xserve, those Intel boxes eat more electricity and give off more heat than they give back in capacity for work."
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Not bad
by bsharitt on Fri 22nd Dec 2006 12:39 UTC
bsharitt
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2005-07-07

With enough RAM, Parallels is pretty cool and fast, though I'm not sure if I would personally use it on a server, but for desktops it's great, especially the coherence mode in the latest betas.