[TriLUG] XP/Vista on Ubuntu (was: Parallels)

[Robert Dale]

I use VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/ - to run WinXP, Linux,
OpenSolaris, and try various LiveCDs.
It's both free and open source with no registration required.

-- 
Robert Dale

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Greg.
> I guess I'd like to open up this discussion to ask if anyone could share a
> success story of running XP/Vista on Ubuntu? And with what package?
> I saw Parallels working with XP on a friends Mac.  I was suitably impressed
> so I was glad to see their version for Linux announced a while back. But, I
> need it to work *reliably*
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
> 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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