Re: Bootcamp and Parallels

[Viktoras Didziulis]

You may try an alternative - VMware player (www.vmware.com). It is free of
charge even for commercial use. I use it on my Windows machine and it can
virtualize all flavours of Linux, BeOS, Solaris and NetWare. I tried it with
Puppy, PCLinux, Slackware Vector Linux, DSLinux, Open Solaris (Belenix),
FreeBSD (PC-BSD). It also runs other 'nixes or MS Windows inside a host
Linux, etc, etc.. It can be used as a "sandbox" for secure Internet browsing
on Windows via the "browser appliance" (Linux/Firefox). The only thing you
may need to start with is a livecd iso image of the guest OS and a simple
configuration file. As far as I know it is also available for MacOSX - check
for VMware Fusion, but it may be still in beta stage... 
They also offer commercial packages like VMware ESX server, VMware virtual
center, Virtual SMP which allows a guest operating system to see up to 4
cpus in the virtual machine, vmware distributed resource scheduler and
vmware consolidated backup... 
 
configuration file template for vector linux: 
 
config.version = "8" 
virtualHW.version = "4" 
scsi0.present = "FALSE" 
memsize = "256" 
ide1:0.present = "TRUE" 
ide1:0.fileName = "VLSOHO-5.1.2-LIVE-5.iso" 
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image" 
floppy0.present = "FALSE" 
ethernet0.present = "TRUE" 
usb.present = "TRUE" 
sound.present = "TRUE" 
sound.virtualDev = "es1371" 
displayName = "Vector Slackware LiveCD" 
guestOS = "otherlinux" 
nvram = "otherlinux.nvram" 
 
workingDir = "." 
 
Just thought this might be of some use... 
All the best 
Viktoras
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Re: Bootcamp and Parallels (was ugly fonts)

[Mark Swindell]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Bill Marriott wrote:


BTW: The best way (IMHO) to set up Parallels is to create a Boot Camp
partition first (being sure to install Apple's drivers), then instruct
Parallels to re-use that partition for its virtual machine while  
running in
Mac OS X. This way, you have access to the native environment when  
you need
it, and you can compare to see whether a problem (such as the  
display issue
you're encountering) is due to Parallels or just the "way it is" in  
Windows.



I've downloaded Bootcamp.  Also found Chipp Walter's excellent  post  
about how to install Parallels to use the Bootcamp partition  
(Nabble's interface is nice, BTW... first time I've used it... http:// 
www.nabble.com/Parallels-Desktop-tf3256305.html#a9086751 ).  This is  
the same idea as you are suggesting, correct?  Given that I already  
have Parallels installed and XP Home running within it, what should I  
proceed to do?  Do I need to remove Parallels and XP and start over,  
or what is the proper procedure?


This  is all somewhat confusing, especially for one as unacquainted  
with the Windows world as I am.


Thanks for your help.

Mark
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