Re: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com - Mossberg on Parallels
Re: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com - Mossberg on Parallels
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com - Mossberg on Parallels
- From: Brian Raymond <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:57:33 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com - Mossberg on Parallels
Title: Re: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com - Mossberg on Parallels
I read a quote from their President a few weeks ago stating that they had it running in their lab. Just found it again on Heise Online http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/71873
A couple of years ago I deployed ~150 copies of ESX for a large program of record pushing out a mobile solution because we had to keep hardware to a minimum. Initially the customer was very skeptical but in the end they were very impressed in what ESX could do to keep the footprint down. I can get a lot more processing power per U in x86 boxes (deployment was all AMD systems) so until Apple went x86 it wasn’t really a consideration for most of the things I do. Now it will be if OSX meets our needs and I see it working for some things so with Vmware it can be quite a solution.
- Brian
On 6/15/06 3:33 PM, "Pike, Michael (NNMC)" <email@hidden> wrote:
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] <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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