[TriLUG] Parallels

[Roy Vestal]

For an OSS alternative that supports Linux,Mac, OSX, and the other big 
OS, Sun's VirtualBox OSS software. http://www.virtualbox.org

I use it under Leopard and CentOS 5. Works fine for me. Did I mention 
the price is excellent? (OSS)

Greg Brown 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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