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

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks for the link. The conclusion to this one seems to be
"Virtualbox is great!", but, alas, Virtualbox is not really available
for Mac OS X yet.

jking

On 11/5/07, Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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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