I just got a new Intel Mac and one of the first things I did was to
install Parallels Workstation. From there, I created a VM and
installed Windows XP (about 30 minute install -- significantly faster
than any previous XP install I have done, albeit this has been a
while). Next, I created a different VM and installed Debian Linux.
Both installs were entirely painless, and the performance was quite
good. Basically, they felt like running on native hardware. I even
had both VMs running simultaneously and performance was still fine.
(I learned later that running more than one VM at a time in the
current Beta version is not necessarily a good idea, though.)
Heavy duty graphics acceleration is not supported (yet), so this
won't be a solution for gamers. But for my purpose, namely running
OS X but being able to run the occasional Windows app that is not yet
supported on OS X (Garmin utilities, for instance), this is great!
And as an added bonus, I now have a Linux box in my laptop bag, too!
On May 9, 2006, at 9:24, Raymond C. Parks wrote:
> Owen Densmore wrote:
>> This looks pretty good: a way to use Windows, Linux, Solaris -- all
>> within your new Intel based Mac OS X system:
>>
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/>>
>> If they can really pull this off, it is pretty world changing! I'll
>> like the Windows part for running apps I can't get for Mac, but I'll
>> *really* like using a Linux or Solaris distro for getting at the
>> latest Java running on X11. That will be huge for Java developers!
>> Ditto for folks wanting the latest Ruby, Python etc which as Open
>> Source projects, often appear on Linux first.
>
> I can already do everything but Mac OS-X on an Intel box with
> VMWare.
> With Virtual PC (no longer supported), folks have achieved similiar
> goals (one fellow had 60+ OSes running on his PowerBook). Neither of
> these has great performance, although VMWare can be helped by hardware
> and some software tweaks.
>
> If this were some form of hypervisor, I'd be interested, but for
> now
> it looks like your basic virtualization.
>
> Ray Parks
>
>
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