[TriLUG] Parallels

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 13:09:18 EDT 2008


VirtualBox - probably more like Free Vmware Server and/or Vmware Fusion

VMware workstation is a legit, enterprise supported product with full
snapshotting features, etc. etc.  It does a lot more than regular free
server you can do on your desktop.


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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