I’m a big fan of VMWare on the Linux
platform… is it official that VMWare is doing an OS X version?
We were (a first for anything in IHS I
might add) to roll out VMWare ESX Server. It was kinda cool because I had this
farm of Redhat Dell PowerEdge boxes and we beta tester ESX Server… turns
out we bought the very first license for ESX Server back in 99 or 2000 (I cant
remember if it was pre or post y2k).
With that being said, VMWare would
typically give us first crack at all of their products and I cannot get so much
as a courtesy “yes we are thinking about OS X”…. then again
it’s been months since I last talked with them as all RH boxes are now
XSERVEs.
Mike
From: Brian Raymond
[mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:09
PM
To: Pike, Michael (NNMC); Dave
Hale; email@hidden
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com -
Mossberg on Parallels
I have been a user of Vmware for
quite some time and I’m hoping a couple of features in VMvware find their
way to Parallels or Vmware officially releases the OSX port they have been
working on. Vmware has the ability to read raw disks which I use so I can use
the same OS image to boot within a VM or natively. More importantly for my
development purposes is virtual switch support, snapshots, and teaming of
multiple VMs. The last beta of Parallels I tried did not have those features so
I’m still dragging my Toshiba laptop around wherever I go :), hopefully
I’ll be able limit that to just my Mac soon.
- Brian
On 6/15/06 10:39 AM, "Pike, Michael (NNMC)"
<email@hidden> wrote:
Walt is great… a few things to point
out with Parallels though.
He compares it to Virtual PC. There are two major differences (if you
want to get to the nitty gritty technical level)… VPC uses EMULATION
(having to emulate an entire processor function) as opposed to Parallels that
uses Virtualization.
Coming from a long line of “emulator/virtualization software”
(VMWare, VPC, Parallels)… and platforms other than Mac (intel based
Linux), I will say that Parallels easily smokes… not just beats but
actually smokes all of the others I have used.
VPC has a nice feature of true dragging and dropping of files, however, anyone
who is coding knows that VPC has issues with long file names and it will screw
them beyond belief. While Parallels doesn’t have the very simple
true “drag and drop”, it will share files through a virtual folder
which is just as efficient and does not choke on long file names.
In regard to games, people who are going to use virtualization software
probably are not gamers (at least the hardcore kind). I’ve yet to
find any emulation/virtualization software that will run games or even play
video efficiently. However, Parallels does both… not being a hard
core PC gamer (I did buy the XBOX 360 last weekend, and 1K into it (MS can
market that’s for sure), have found that I prefer consoles to PC gaming
anyway.
With that being said, when Apple launched the NY Apple Store CNBC had a Steve
Jobs interview… I couldn’t watch it in BootCamp, but was able to
watch it without issue in Parallels.
The other thing to note that Walt forgot to mention, Parallels will read your
VPC drive images… so if you already have VPC, you can use your existing
WinXP license and installation in Parallels without problem (I’ve never
test this, I have MSDN so XP licenses are not an issue).
At any rate, I am very impressed with Parallels in contrast to any other
software in the same classification. I also program a lot so my needs may
be different. I only go into Windows when testing a multiplatform
application or to watch something I can only get with Windows Media.
Parallels has done a great job with a release so soon after the official intel
Mac – IMHO.
Mike
From:
fed-talk-bounces+michael.pike=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+michael.pike=email@hidden]
On Behalf Of Dave Hale
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:50
AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com -
Mossberg on Parallels
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB115032684720080578-lMyQjAxMDE2NTEwNDMxMjQ2Wj.html
"Still, Parallels Desktop is a very good product and a
pleasure to use. It's like having two computers in one, the best of both
worlds."
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