Re: [MLUG] Compiz (was "Parallels vs. VMware Fusion for the Mac?")

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Nov 6, 2007 11:47 PM, ryan woodsmall <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> If you don't foresee a need to boot the machine into Windows,
> Parallels or VMware Fusion standalone is the way to go.  I'm planning
> on getting a MacBook early next year and I doubt I'll even bother
> with Bootcamp.  It's much easier to maintain in a VM in my opinion.

You've done it, so I will take your word for it.

> How strict is Microsoft about the OEM activation?

I'm not sure, but I think it's strict enough to worry about messing
around too much with the VM setup.

> Could you legally
> move that copy, which I assume you bought with a piece of cheap
> hardware, to Mac in the first place?

OK, so there appears to be some...flexibility on this point now, in
the sense that I didn't have to buy hardware with it at Micro Center.
I'm not sure if this is official policy or not, but a place that sells
Macs and OEM copies of XP Pro now seems to be willing to do the
obvious thing. I guess I also read that the interpretation of
"hardware purchase" was so broad that a USB key would have done it at
a lot of places.

> I did reactivation with an OEM
> copy of XP Home a few years ago and it went pretty smoothly, but I
> was just moving a hard disk into a new machine.

In this case, the OEM copy "should" key itself to what I've got as
long as I don't move it. Evidently, the hard drive upgrade scenario is
one that comes up a lot and you apparently can get a reactivation for
that if that's what XP phones home is different. This is possibly not
just a theoretical scenario; I possibly mistakenly bought the cheapest
MacBook, and the 80 GB drive is surprisingly full once I migrated
things over. If Parallels or VMware really want 15 GB for an XP VM, I
will have/should have wanted a bigger hard drive to start with.On the
other hand, 160 GB SATA notebook drives are $90 at New Egg, so I guess
I will cross that bridge when I come to it. The biggest, best, and
most important change in the MacBook design is the fact that you can
change the hard drive out in like 2 minutes.

> Definitely check out Q.app (http://www.kju-app.org/kju/).  It's
> basically qemu in a nice OS X format.  There's no kernel accelerator
> for XNU yet, so it's a bit slow, but the guy is supposedly working on
> it.  qemu is really cool too, and it's great for a free VM to test
> Linux stuff.

That's interesting. It looks like you can set up a VM for Linux using
either Parallels or VMware as well, and I'm more hard disk bound at
the moment, but that looks cool, too.

I know the first hardware upgrade I'll be doing is memory, though. For
$60, I can't see not having 2 GB of RAM if I"m going to be running XP
in a VM.

jking

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