Well, her comment “It already runs
on Mac OS”.
That kind of shows she is not a hardcore
Apple user because all hardcore Mac users know Mac OS is 9, and OS X is X.
It would make sense to have the VMWare
partnership though… VMWare was doing VM when VM wasn’t cool.
But I really like Parallels too.
To my knowledge, VMWare is the only VM
platform that will allow you to run beta builds of Windows Vista without all
kinds of rings to jump through.
From a marketing perspective it makes
sense too… Connectix and VMWare were rivals. MS bought Connectix…
makes sense for Apple to team with their only viable competitor.
I am sure we will find out at WWDC this
year. I personally would love to see a VM solution in OS that will also
run OS X in the VM. Right now with a personal project I have on an
application I host, I literally have stacks of Mac mini’s running OS X
Server because they have to be isloated between customers using them due to
HIPAA. I’d love to get one big server and slice it into many little
servers.
If they do happen to add that
functionality I will have some good deals on PPC Mac minis J
Mike
From: fed-talk-bounces+michael.pike=email@hidden
[mailto:fed-talk-bounces+michael.pike=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Richard A. Kilcoyne
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:08
PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] WSJ.com -
Mossberg on Parallels
Wow, by the sound of that article, I'm starting to think Apple and
VMware are up to something. Could there be a partnership here? I think I've
seen some rumors floating around about virtualization in the forthcoming
version of OS X (Leopard).
Rick
On Jun 15, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Brian Raymond wrote:
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
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