Actually, I haven't decide whether to get a PC laptop (which will probably be a Thinkpad T61) or a Macbook Pro laptop.
I'm more interested in performance and want to know which one of the following solutions will be faster: 1) Thinkpad T61 running Ubuntu and VmWare 5 with XP + Visual Studio 2005 + MSSQL + IIS 2) Macbook Pro (similar specs to the T61) running MacOSX + Parallels and a virtual machine with the same configuration. All in all I want my day to day to be without Windows at all, but still be able to work and develop the necessary things I need with Windows without leaving my host. I prefer Linux but if the performance is worse than what I will get with comparable hardware on Mac + Parallels I'll go with a Mac. Eran -----Original Message----- From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 3:27 PM To: Eran Sandler Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Virtualization software on Linux Hi, I didn't understand, you're planning to buy a Mac book or Mac book pro? or Dell/Lenovo/HP/Acer/Asus etc.. laptop? Parallels or VMWare Fusion (both for Mac) use the virtualized extensions of the processor (if I recall correctly, all newer macs have those extension enabled). You should search which VMWare product suites you, depending on memory configuration you have on your machine, which version of software etc. For example: VMWare workstation 5 is WAY faster compared to VMWare 6. OTOH VMWare 6 supports USB 2.0, 4GB RAM, more NICs (if I recall correctly) and can be accessed natively with any VNC client, so you can run VMWare 6 on the background and occasionly launch VNC client to access it. VMWare server is free (as a beer) virtualized software. It's pretty stable (I have 1 right now running at my house for the last 50 days), but I don't think it supports the VT extentions of your new processor. Thanks, Hetz On 7/8/07, Eran Sandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > I haven't been active lately on the mailing list but I am watching it. > > > > I have a question regarding virtualization software on Linux. > > > > I plan on getting a new laptop. Unfortunately I still need access to Windows for some development purposes and I need to know the performance of virtualization software such as VmWare or Parallels on Linux as opposed to Parallels on Mac (which I heard is really really fast). > > > > Of course I would rather have a laptop running Ubuntu or some other Linux variant and have a virtualization software such as VmWare (or something else that is really fast) running instead of using Mac, but I would do anything in my power to avoid running a Windows laptop (and since its new it will probably have Vista which is even worse). > > > > Does any of you have prior experience with this or know someone who does? > > > > I'll have to run Visual Studio 2005, compile and run it with MSSQL on that machine and it should work smoothly. > > > > I'd love to get comments and/or information about it. > > > > Thanks, > > Eran > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
