what the difference in terms of performance on my mac between the two options? i have win7 installed and allocated 1.5gb of ram of my 4gb ram.
Me too I do not understand the difference; the only thing I can find is that the documentation explicitly says Pause frees up the CPU & memory resources, but no information about what Suspend does is given. So if Pause supposedly frees everything up (according to my Activity Monitor, the memory is NOT released), why is Suspend even an option? I also find it interesting that, while paused, Parallels button at the bottom left has two options: Resume or Suspend. Like Suspend puts it into a further reduced state. I wonder which then, is the best option, or is there actually a reason why specific situations would call for one or the other. Anyone?
*pause* take effect on the Host O.S. process itself that run the VM. it should free CPU and I/O resources (Disk, Net) but memory is not deallocated. Suspend, otherwise, dump the state of VM on disk and *quit* the Host O.S. process that run the VM and therefore deallocate the memory, and obviously the CPU. hope this make sense.
