After my success with Bootcamp the last few days, I thought I’d give the beta of Parallels Workstation for the Mac a try. Parallels is really interesting, because it uses the Intel Virtualization technology that’s built into the dual-core.

The software is definitely of "beta" quality - my first attempt to install Windows XP resulted in a full system crash. However once I was able to get XP finally installed, I have to say it’s pretty amazing. It boots XP under the virtual machine in under 5 seconds.

Yes, 5 seconds.

I need to run some benchmarks to see how this fares against BootCamp, but I’d much rather have a VM story that having to dual boot. It’s going to be really interesting to see what/if Leopard may offer for virtualization.