[X4U] Parallels vs. Windows

[Jim Elmore]

See http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ -- maybe someday Boot Camp and  
Parallels will be obsolete. Wouldn't that be great if applications  
were not OS specific.


On Nov 18, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Jon Marett wrote:

> On Nov 18, 2006, at 6:54 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:
>
>> Have others heard/read/divined that Parallels will be tweaked to  
>> capture an
>> already-installed Boot Camp Windows XP partition?
>
> Not sure if Parallels will add such a feature, but this thread  
> discusses the process of converting a Boot Camp partition to a  
> Parallels vm:
>
> <http://forum.parallels.com/thread3261.html>
>
> I have an early beta of VMware Fusion which shows lots of promise,  
> but it is too early to tell if performance will beat that of  
> Parallels and rival that of a Boot Camp install. I'm already  
> impressed with the features that work already (drag and drop  
> between the host and vm, multi-processor support for vm, solid USB  
> support including the built-in iSight in my macbook). Even simple  
> things like resizing the vm window are pretty slick. The public  
> beta should be available by the end of the year, and should have an  
> even better feature set and be more stable than this beta.
>
> VMware and a few 3rd party vendors also have P2V products for other  
> platforms, so we can hope it will become a reality for us mac  
> users. Otherwise a Boot Camp install might be converted using these  
> tools on another platform to convert the partition to a vm, which  
> then can be transfered back to the Mac. Of course you would need  
> another machine running VMware Server (a free product that runs on  
> Windows and Linux), and the software to do the P2V conversion (not  
> sure if any of these are free).
>
> jon
>
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