Comments on: Virtualization For Mac OS X?

By: Jeff Walden

Jeff Walden — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:04:07 +0000

I’ve had fairly good results from the Mac VirtualBox beta. I’m running Fedora 7 and Windows XP on it, and it works reasonably well. It’s definitely still beta software — I tried running VirtualBox and Parallels together once and Parallels caused a kernel panic, and the hard disk image was corrupted and I had to delete and reinstall the image — but hey, it’s free, and the source is available if you care about that. It’s not quite as polished as Parallels, but it works fairly well. I have not had an opportunity to test Fusion.

By: Neil T.

Neil T. — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:53:27 +0000

Apparently Parallels are working on it: http://parallelsvirtualization.....rt-of.html

By: hansen

hansen — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:34:03 +0000

You might wanna have an eye open for VirtualBox.
http://www.virtualbox.org/

VirtualBox is way faster than VMware, when I used it for WinXP on WinXP.

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:00:17 +0000

You can’t just buy a Mac OS X client, even though that’s all you really need. You need to buy server.

They should call it Mac OS X Ultimate, then.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:40:48 +0000

Al Billings: That’s my understanding as well… so if it’s legal now, presumably support will appear in the next release. Hopefully.

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:08 +0000

The VMWare fellow that commented on my last blog post on virtualization said that the main blocking point with VMWare support for virtualizing OS X was legal, not technological…