[X4U] Parallels vs. Windows

[John McClernan]

Wayne, et al.
These have been around for linux for a while now and started popping  
up for
MAC OS X. They work, kinda. They are still wonky, at best. Here is a  
clue "*1 -
Microsoft Access supported in Office 2000 only."

Now, if it was a real functional Windows Kernal, it would support  
everything Windows would support,
so something is missing or not functioning correctly. I guess that's  
why it's listed as "beta".

They are fun to play with and impress your friends with, but nothing  
I would consider "production
grade".  Plus I wouldn't pay for it, their are free ones out on the  
market.
That's my 2¢m, FWIW.
Cheers,
John


On Nov 18, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Wayne Wilkin wrote:

> 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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