[fwlug] VMBOX

[Vern Ceder]

Yeah, I run Parallels on my Mac and it works fine. Until VMWare finally 
came out with Fusion, it was the main choice for virualization on the Mac.

The Windows and Linux versions appear to be a touch behind the Mac 
version, which is up to 3.0, and my impression is that they don't have 
much penetration outside the Mac space, but I may be wrong about that.

Vern

Dutch Rapley wrote:
> Parallels also offers a VM solution that runs under Linux. It's way less 
> cheaper than VMWare's workstation at only $50.
> 
> http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/
> 
> I've never used it so I can't speak for it, but a lot of folks run 
> Parallels on their Macs to host Windows virtual machines.
> 
> -Dutch
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Vern Ceder <vceder at canterburyschool.org 
> <mailto:vceder at canterburyschool.org>> wrote:
> 
>     The free player will run anything you want, it just won't *create* a
>     virtual machine. That doesn't matter, since there are tons of free VM
>     images available online - you just download one and install your own
>     copy of Windows onto it and then load whatever you want.
> 
>     With the VMWare solution you run an entire Windows computer in a window,
>     so anything that will run on Windows (well, almost anything) can run on
>     a VMWare VM.
> 
>     VMWare workstation and VMWare Server (which is also free) will create VM
>     images from scratch and do other cool tricks, but the player runs the
>     VM's just as well.
> 
>     Vern
> 
>     John McKelvey wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Vern Ceder
>     <vceder at canterburyschool.org <mailto:vceder at canterburyschool.org>
>      > <mailto:vceder at canterburyschool.org
>     <mailto:vceder at canterburyschool.org>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     John,
>      >
>      >     I'm not sure exactly what you mean by VMBOX. As I see it, you
>     have
>      >     two (and a half ;) ) options for handling your needs:
>      >
>      >     1. VMWare (player for free, workstation for $$) can run
>     Windows VM's
>      >     very nicely - I (and quite a few others on this list) have been
>      >     doing that for years. QEMU is free, and also works, but is
>     slower.
>      >
>      >
>      > With the free player exactly what kinds of things can I run..
>     Minitab,
>      > MSOffice, etc?
>      >
>      > Thanks!
>      >
>      > John
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >     2. Wine will run MSOffice on Linux pretty well, and while I don't
>      >     remember the version, when I tried Minitab at school last
>     year, it
>      >     ran OK on Wine also.
>      >
>      >     2.5. You can handle almost all of MSOffice's files with
>     OpenOffice -
>      >     just today, I used OO to open a powerpoint file that was making
>      >     PowerPoint itself crash. Word files with form fields are
>     messy, and
>      >     the spreadsheet graphing isn't as good, but everything else is
>      >     pretty good. Then you would just need to use Wine or VMWare for
>      >     things like Minitab...
>      >
>      >     FWIW,
>      >
>      >     Vern
>      >
>      >     John McKelvey wrote:
>      >
>      >         Any opinions on this for running Windoz apps under linux?
>     Other
>      >         suggestions for this?  Am about to give up and use Linux
>     on my
>      >         laptop, but need to be able to edit edit/create Powerpoint
>      >         slides, and some other  MSOffice pgms, as well as Minitab
>     V15.
>      >         Thanks!
>      >
>      >         John McKelvey
>      >
>      >
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