On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:35 -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/parallels/?branch_id=60855&release_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 on
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
go.
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=60855&release_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
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 de
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 -- wit