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

[Nolan Caudill]

I have a fairly simple setup (ie, no need for exposing the the VM to the
network), but VirtualBox has worked great for me with WinXP on Ubuntu 7.10
and 8.04.

Nolan Caudill

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> Cristobal Palmer has been using VirtualBox at his place pf employment and
> can tell you a pretty ugly story about trying to expose several VMs with
> external IP addresses without bridging.  I don't know if he finally got it
> working or not, but the territory he was on was well outside their
> documentation.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Robert Dale wrote:
>
> > I use VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/ - to run WinXP, Linux,
> > OpenSolaris, and try various LiveCDs.
> > It's both free and open source with no registration required.
> >
> > --
> > Robert Dale
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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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