[TriLUG] Parallels

[Roy Vestal]

Actually, it's more like VMware Workstation/Fusion. It supports shared 
folders, USB connectivity (without hacking), and Sound (without hacking).

VMware Server is a stripped down free(as in beer) version of VMware 
workstation pretending it's ESX.

David McDowell wrote:
> 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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