[TriLUG] Parallels

[Robert Dale]

So if you were to map Sun's products to VMWare products..

xVM Server[1] - ESX
VirtualBox       - VMWare Workstation

??

1. http://www.openxvm.org/

-- 
Robert Dale

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there anyone who is running Vista/XP within parallels on ubuntu?
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mark.
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