Re: [osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-25 Thread Erast Benson
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:35 -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote: http://freshmeat.net/projects/parallels/?branch_id=60855release_id=223137 It's not free though -- costs $50.00. OTOH there's a free trial version. Their product only supports Solaris/Guest, AFAIK. What if we will send a community

[osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
Hmmm, Parallels Workstation might be worth a try as an alternative to what we've been talking about here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/parallels/?branch_id=60855release_id=223137 It's not free though -- costs $50.00. OTOH there's a free trial version. -Eric P.S. I found out about it via a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-24 Thread Bill Walker - Principal Engineer
Not bad at all, especially since they have the nifty toolkit for integration with the host OS that vmware has been lacking... :) (Nudge, nudge to my friends over at VMware.) Bummer is that the hypervisor is stuck at Pentium-II and AMD Duron. Both are a little crusty as far as chip features

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote: Me? I'm like Rich, I (and my family) need Windows very infrequently -- less than once a month, easy. So when that does happen, I find it no problem to just reboot one of my two multi-boot boxes that has Windows on it (a BestBuy special Compaq desktop

[osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
Bill R., Bill W., Rich, and Stephen -- Thanks for the primer on VMWare-on-Windows-with-Solaris-guest. My take-away: For people who want to have a box they can switch between Windows and Solaris a lot on, I think I'd still recommend free VMWare on (unsupported) Windows XP as an OK option --