Check out Parallels, a new VM!!

[Super Nade]

Guys, this is looking good. We have a new VM, which makes use of the CPU Virtualization technology offered by AMD and Intel. I must say it is rather fast as well! From what little research I have done, it is a JVM based app.

The cool thing is, you do not need a cd/dvd to run multiple OS'es. You could just use an iso on your HDD. I believe you can get Mac OSX to work on Windows as well. (Edit* Apparently this is not true. I did not find any info about this on the net. I am wrong here.) The virtualization works both ways i.e Win<->*.nix/Mac.

The DL is a 15 day trial version. I may just buy this once I check it out fully.

I'm running 3 OS'es i.e Gentoo 2006.1, kubuntu and Win XP, the base OS. For some reason VISTA is not working. I'm gonna try Suse 10.1 as well.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7...allels4zv4.png

[Aedan]

Why not use VMWare? Whilst it doesn't support AMD's virtualisation, it does support Intel's Virtualisation Technology. If you have a 64bit CPU and OS, it also supports 64bit guest OSes too. It's well supported, it's very mature and it's free, even for the VMWare Server product!

[Super Nade]

Originally Posted by Áedán

Why not use VMWare? Whilst it doesn't support AMD's virtualisation, it does support Intel's Virtualisation Technology. If you have a 64bit CPU and OS, it also supports 64bit guest OSes too. It's well supported, it's very mature and it's free, even for the VMWare Server product!

I'm not sure how different this is from VMWare. I'm not sure if it is even better? I have not used VMWare before. Maybe I'll give it a shot and do a small write-up before my 15 day trial period expires.

[Daniel ~]

It works a treat! Run a search in the forums, Nice juicy thread on VMWare.

[fantomfreq]

Originally Posted by Super Nade

The cool thing is, you do not need a cd/dvd to run multiple OS'es. You could just use an iso on your HDD. I believe you can get Mac OSX to work on Windows as well. The virtualization works both ways i.e Win<->*.nix/Mac.

I'd like to point this statement out as inaccurate. I've heard great things about Parallels Desktop for OS X. It apparently now includes support for Vista RC1. However, you can not run MacOS from your Windows computer (unless you're reading about some hack I haven't seen yet.)

[Aedan]

Originally Posted by Super Nade

I'm not sure how different this is from VMWare. I'm not sure if it is even better? I have not used VMWare before. Maybe I'll give it a shot and do a small write-up before my 15 day trial period expires.

Some performance comparisons would be good too! I know that with VMWare, the evaluations done so far have tended to indicate that certain types of operation (heavy I/O and much context switching) actually causes hardware virtualisation to run slower than software virtualisation!

[Super Nade]

Originally Posted by fantomfreq

I'd like to point this statement out as inaccurate. I've heard great things about Parallels Desktop for OS X. It apparently now includes support for Vista RC1. However, you can not run MacOS from your Windows computer (unless you're reading about some hack I haven't seen yet.)

Sorry. I was so excited at being able to run several Linux VM's at once, that I completely misunderstood the OS X Guest version option.

[Daniel ~]

Still did more good than harm I'd say.":O}