Forget Boot Camp: Virtualization Is Here
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The release of Boot Camp is as exciting for the fact that it came from Apple as for how easy it makes dual-booting your Intel Mac into Windows. But the holy grail has always been a true virutalization solution, which allows you to run Windows within a session on your Mac with only a slight performance penalty. A company Parallels was promising that solution, and they have now delivered. Their virtualization technology, Parallels Workstation 2.1, is available for beta testing right now. The full release, expected to cost $49US, will be released at the end of April.[via]
Qemu does that fine (with the proprietary accelerator). I hope the dev updates it for OS X, there is after all a unix (FreeBSD!) version of the accelerator. I’ve never tested it on *nix, but it works great under windows. Best of all, it’s free ;)
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html
what happen to adam?
Adam has some personal matters he is attending to – but we expect him back!
Thanks malc for the thinking of me. It is 5PM, i have been here since 8AM, have not had a chance to break for lunch yet and will be working until 10PM tonight to make deadline on a new server install for a client.
My work requires me to do it until its done and thats exactly what’s going on. I will be coming back soon. I read the site daily and even my website, http://mypersonalgetaway.com has only reviews posted since those I have to write about but my opinion articles are no where to be seen lately.
I will be working tomorrow and Sunday too and doing it again on Monday at my current job. The nights I do get off early, I teach an Aikido class with my father here in Saint Augustine, FL. I teach 5 days a week 3 hour classes so my time is stretched extremely thin.
I will return soon and thanks again for thinking of me.
Sincerely,
Adam jackson