Has anyone played with Parallels yet? www.parallels.com From their web site:
Parallels Workstation is a powerful, easy to use, cost effective desktop virtualization solution that empowers PC users with the ability to create completely networked, fully portable, entirely independent virtual machines on a single physical machine. I have it installed here at work on this Dell box running Win 2000 Pro. I have Xandros 3.0.2 Business Edition running in it. A couple of issues that I need to work out are: 1. I haven't figured out how to resize (it won't let me drag the edges of the window) the window that Parallels is running Xandros in which means that I can't access the Launch menu/Panel in windowed mode because the Parallels virtual window is larger than the physical screen that it is running on, so I have to switch to full screen mode to use them. 2. We are behind a firewall at work that uses an automatic proxy configuration URL to configure itself. I have that working properly with Firefox but I can't get it to work with Xandros Networks, which, for you that may not be familiar with Xandros Networks, is a GUI for apt-get that makes package and system management (OS updates/upgrades) very easy. 3. I haven't figured out how to access the Window$ C drive from Xandros. Observations 1. "Booting" Xandros is SLOW, by comparison to a native boot up. 2. Launching applications is a little bit slower than in native mode. 3. Once launched, applications seem to run at native speed. 4. So far, everything seems to be quite stable. Overall, I am impressed and like Parallels a lot. If the price is reasonable when it is commercially launched, I will definately pop for it. Ed Richards This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act on information sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe you are not or should not be one of the named recipients, please notify sender accordingly by reply email and delete all copies of this message prior to forwarding, copying or otherwise reproducing this message or attachments thereto. For information regarding the export control status of items discussed in this document, please refer to the project control list. Thank you.
