[TriLUG] Parallels

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil OlsonE at aosa.army.mil
Wed Oct 1 14:28:34 EDT 2008


+1 for Sun's VirtualBox. I've played around with it a bit, and favor it
over VMWare ESX.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Roy Vestal
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:19 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Parallels

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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