[TriLUG] Parallels

[Roy Vestal]

ESX is a different animal than VirtualBox. VirtualBox is more closely 
similar to VMware Fusion. :) ESX is a server based vmkernel designed for 
one purpose, to exploit the hosts hardware and host multiple VM's 
simultaneously.

VirtualBox and VMware Fusion are desktop applications that allow you to 
run a VM within your Desktop.

Sorry, just being nit-picky.  ;)


OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:

> +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:
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>>   
>>     
>>> Is there anyone who is running Vista/XP within parallels on ubuntu?
>>> Regards,
>>> Mark.
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