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

[William Sutton]

Cristobal Palmer has been using VirtualBox at his place pf employment and 
can tell you a pretty ugly story about trying to expose several VMs with 
external IP addresses without bridging.  I don't know if he finally got it 
working or not, but the territory he was on was well outside their 
documentation.

William Sutton

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Robert Dale wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Robert Dale
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> 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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