[TriLUG] XP/Vista on Ubuntu (was: Parallels)

[Mark Freeze]

Thanks Greg.
I guess I'd like to open up this discussion to ask if anyone could share a
success story of running XP/Vista on Ubuntu? And with what package?
I saw Parallels working with XP on a friends Mac.  I was suitably impressed
so I was glad to see their version for Linux announced a while back. But, I
need it to work *reliably*
Thanks,
Mark


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can 1/2 answer your question.  I have a legacy client that runs XP under
> OS X and used both Parallels and VM-Ware Fusion and I can report that if
> you're going to spend $80, Fusion is the way to go, at least under OS X.
> Fusion has proved far more stable over the eight month test window and any
> further "OS in a OS" deployed by me will be Fusion based.
>
> Parallels did work, though, but it also locked up occasionally and didn't
> recover from sleep well at all.  USB devices under Windows via the host OS
> were tricky as well (Fusion seems to deal with USB much better).  Also, in
> the older version of Parallels (and this has bee hopefully fixed) IPv6
> would
> cause the OS under emulation to vomit on itself rather dratically.
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there anyone who is running Vista/XP within parallels on ubuntu?
> > Regards,
> > Mark.
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