[TriLUG] Parallels

[David McDowell]

I have parallels 3.x on OSX 10.5.x running on a macbook with both an
XP and Vista VM and both are fine, no problems at all.  They sleep and
wake from sleep with no problems and I have run some obscure windows
executables in each with no weird side-effects.  So far I haven't had
any USB troubles with printing or thumb drives.  One device I haven't
tried yet which will make or break my opinion of the USB support will
be when I plug in a USB LocoBuffer II for using JMRI within the VM.  I
haven't done anything with IPv6 though.

David

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can 1/2 answer your question.  I have a legacy client that runs XP under
> OS X and used both Parallels and VM-Ware Fusion and I can report that if
> you're going to spend $80, Fusion is the way to go, at least under OS X.
> Fusion has proved far more stable over the eight month test window and any
> further "OS in a OS" deployed by me will be Fusion based.
>
> Parallels did work, though, but it also locked up occasionally and didn't
> recover from sleep well at all.  USB devices under Windows via the host OS
> were tricky as well (Fusion seems to deal with USB much better).  Also, in
> the older version of Parallels (and this has bee hopefully fixed) IPv6 would
> cause the OS under emulation to vomit on itself rather dratically.
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there anyone who is running Vista/XP within parallels on ubuntu?
>> Regards,
>> Mark.
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