[X4U] Parallels vs. Windows

[Wayne Wilkin]

Anyone looked at CrossOver yet?

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

On Nov 18, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Jim Elmore wrote:

> 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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