Sun offers Free alternative to VMWare Fusion and Parallels

Ichingcarpenter

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Sat Jul-19-08 10:43 PM
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Sun offers Free alternative to VMWare Fusion and Parallels

Virtualization continues to be a big topic among Mac users with Intel-powered Macs. Products from Parallels and VMware allow you to easily run many different operating systems on your Mac, each within its own protected virtual environment. Recently, a third player entered the market�Sun, with its VirtualBox product.

Also works with linux .

http://www.macworld.com/article/134584/2008/07/mwvodcast59.html?lsrc=rss_main

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Pierre.Suave

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Sat Jul-19-08 11:52 PM
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1. Interesting...

I will have to look into this.

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alfredo

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Mon Jul-28-08 05:34 PM
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2. I've downloaded it and I'm now downloading Ubuntu.

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alfredo

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Mon Jul-28-08 11:58 PM
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3. Status

I now have Ubuntu running and I am posting using Firefox in Linux running in a window on OSX.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Mon Aug-04-08 08:26 PM
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4. SWWEEETTTTT

I may download this tonight and actually install my copy of XP... yes, there are a couple proggies I want to run... and it solves my quandary about windows CE....

Yep, looking at a Palm since it plays better with mac... better is the operative word... issues with 10.5... many issues with I-Sync, and my PDA walked.

But if I got a copy of XP running, I can fully look at a replacement CE machine with modern tech.

Yep, Palm has ancient tech compared with that Ipaq has out. (and for the same price to boot)

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moggie

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Tue Aug-05-08 04:15 AM
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5. It's good to see competition

I'm a fan of VMware, which I use a lot. Not so much Parallels, which I found a little unstable (things may have improved since then). But competition is good. I'll be giving it a try on my Mini at work: we're big users of VMware on servers, but I'd have to beg for a VMware licence for my Mini, and this saves me the trouble. So far, though, it's crashed on me during my first attempt at installing a guest OS.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Thu Aug-07-08 12:31 PM
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6. Downloaded it today

will do my WIN install later in the day I think

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