[LBo] VMWare vs. Parallels

[Andrew Henry]

Billy Pollifrone wrote:
> What makes it "so far seem better" than other virtualization? What
> constitutes my forking over the hard earned $50?
>
> - Billy
>
> On 3/21/07, Allen <netsecurity at sound-by-design.com> wrote:
>> If you are looking at virtualization then you owe it to yourself
>> to look at Parallels:
>>
>> http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/
>>
>> $50 and so far it seems better than VMWare. Gets very high marks
>> in the Mac world and "Linux Magazine names Parallels Workstation
>> 2.2 "Emperor Class" software - its highest award."
>>
>> Haven't done any head to head testing but the little bit I've
>> used it, it seems quite good. I know people in the Mac world who
>> swear by it.
>>
>> Allen
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I agree with Billy and will add that the 'best' solution from Free
Software point of view is probably kvm.  I use VMware server to launch
WinXP so that I can use a Nortel VPN client to connect to my work PC and
therefore work from home.  The VPN client *is* available for Linux as a
tarball, *if* you pay Nortel extra cash for it.  Duh.  Despite the fact
that you get the Windows version of the client for free with the
hardware/service, you have to pay extra if you want the Linux client. =

This is the *only* reason why I need virtualisation.

Now that kernel 2.6.20-x supports kernel virtualisation, and as I just
bought a laptop with Intels VT technology (hardware support for
virtualisation), I will be switching over to this as soon as Ubuntu 7.04
beta is released (tomorrow according to the schedule).

--andrew

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