Re: [MLUG] Parallels vs. VMware Fusion for the Mac?

[Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I haven't actually played with it, but one of the guys here in the
office sent me this a while back:

http://venturecake.com/10-minutes-to-run-every-windows-app-seamlessly-on-your-ubuntu-desktop

He uses it and says it works well although I'm not sure if it helps you
or not on a Macbook.

Rick

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:35 -0500, Jonathan King wrote:
> Sigh...it looks like I really cannot conveniently avoid paying the
> Microsoft tax to run the stuff I need for the NIH. But I did avoid
> buying a Windows notebook, so I am now trying to figure out which
> approach to running XP Pro alongside of Mac OS X will be best. The two
> out there are Parallels 3.0 and WMware Fusion.
> 
> As far as I can tell, both can (either right now or in a small number
> of days) get the job done, and specifically, will allow me to do an XP
> Pro set up with Boot Camp (for the shameful moments of my life where I
> truly do need to boot into XP) and then use the same installation for
> virtualization.  The trick is here that I am going to attempt to set
> this up with an OEM/system builder copy of XP Pro, and I need to avoid
> the hose of it deciding my hardware set up is different in these two
> situations. The work-around here seems to involve having the same MAC
> address for networking visible to Windows in both situation, but
> correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Does anybody out there have any experience setting this up, preferably
> with Leopard?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jon King
> 

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-Patrick Cassels



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