Parallels beats big shots Microsoft and VMWare in being the first to offer a virtualization solution for Intel Macs. “Parallels announced today that it is beginning beta testing for Parallels Workstation 2.1 for Mac OS X, the first virtualization software that gives Apple users the ability to simultaneously run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their applications alongside Mac OS X on an Intel-powered Apple computer.” Some users complained about Apple’s Boot Camp, which is merely an elegant form of dual-booting, and actually wanted virtualization.
Wonder what this changes for apple & their possible implamentation of this in 10.5
Nothing, Apple’s implementation should be more elegant, built in, and integrated with OSX (if they do include virtualization). Heck, I’m hoping for headless integration, but that’s asking a bit too much.
I’m formatting it, installing the XGL distro I’ve been playing with, installing some vm and running osx and winblows on the opposite sides of the cube.
That xgl stuff is pretty cool.
What makes you think that you’ll be able to run OS X in a VM?
lol, geekiness! You’re right though, it might not.
If he has a PPC mac that’s pretty trivial (search for MacOnLinux).
If he has a mactel well… I don’t expect VMWare will take very long to support OSX 🙂
Linux [is Poo] appears to have a point. OS X isn’t listed as a supported hosted OS. FreeBSD is though, so it’s not that big a stretch to think that Darwin or X for Intel would work in virtualization even if it requires some work or workaround(s) to get it running acceptably. But there is no official support for it now.
Since OS X is a supported primary OS you may find it easier (and more practical) to start with it to host other OSes first and then try your plan once OS X [presumably] becomes a supported hosted OS.
was first.
qemu still does not have working virtualization
– Kelson
Indeed. I think all will become clear when native vs. Parallels vs. Q benchmarks come out.
I will try this as soon as I get home. This is exactly what I wanted, I hate dual booting. Now I can have windows, fedora core and mac os x on the same machine. Sweeet.
Let us know your results if you are wiling to do so. It will be interesting to hear from someone we can interact with as opposed to a canned report from a source that can’t be queried.
In the last few weeks, amazing things have happened to Macintosh. Instead of just catering to what they want, now they are catering to what people want. Now we have vitalization, and I think hell just dropped a few degrees when windows was officially supported by mac. And then got even colder when they threw bios support in with it all.
What about openGL? ActiveX ect.
How would it work with a CAD app like AutoCAD pr IronCAD? What about modelers like Rhino?
i’ve got both up and running, and qemu doesn’t hold a candle to parallels VM. its SOOOO much faster. i don’t have any benchmarks of course, however even just running through the Xp install on each, its painfully obvious. Once at the desktop, there’s absolutely no question.
How long did it take for you to install Windows on Parallels? I guess mine is kinda stuck at the device installation stage.
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How long did it take for you to install Windows on Parallels? I guess mine is kinda stuck at the device installation stage.
it took about 25-30 minutes i believe. QEMU took several hours on my Intel mac, and VPC on a 1.67ghz PowerPC mac took close to two hours if i recall correctly.
Thanks for the reply. I have closed the app after almost two hours of inactivity of the progress bar. I am going to try again tomorrow.
qemu doesn’t run software, it walks it. it’s that slow.
This illustrate the difference between emulation (QEMU) and virtualization (Parallels)…
“Some users complained about Apple’s Boot Camp, which is merely an elegant form of dual-booting, and actually wanted virtualization.”
Some users will complain about anything.
there’s no benefit to enabling dual channel mode on the MacBook Pro.
I’m surprised, I thought it will double my ram speed if I install ram in matched pairs.
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