RE: Mac and Xy

["Brian Henderson" brian-henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Speaking of emulators...I thought this might be of interest to the list.

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Open source Virtual PC alternatives:

-Cooperative Linux 0.7

(Available for: Windows)
coLinux is an extremely interesting new approach to virtualization allowing you to run Linux
parallel to your Windows platform.
coLinux approaches the experimenting Linux novice - who does not...

Read more
http://www.osalt.com/colinux

-VirtualBox 3.0

(Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux)
Originally a commercial product VirtualBox is now also available in an open source edition. The open
source version is, however,
always a version behind the commercial version and thus lacks some...

Read more
http://www.osalt.com/virtualbox

-Xen 3.3

(Available for: windows Mac, linux)
Xen is state-of-the-art virtualization on the PC - and it is even open source. With a high
performance mainly due to it's
architecture with the hypervisor and it's support for hardware virtualization...

Read more
http://www.osalt.com/xen

-OpenVZ 2.6

(Available for: Linux)
OpenVZ is a great alternative to standard virtualization offerings on the market, that unlike most
other products only offers
operating system level virtualization - and only on Linux. However, this...

Read more
http://www.osalt.com/openvz

-BrianH.


-----Original Message----- From: Harry Binswanger

Fred,

Thanks for this. Vm Fusion is what I'm considering. Running an XP box under
emulation. I understand that it's fast (from what I saw running on my
friend's Mac), and I'm very attracted to being able to take snapshots of
the whole system, instead of relying on Win's System Restore, which
destroyed me this time round.

--Harry

>I searched for "parallels" and "VMware," two emulators for the Mac. There
>are also (limited) ways to run XY using "DosBox," an emulator built for
>running games. I and several others have contributed posts relating to
>running XY on a Mac. Currently, I use the VMware emulator with WinXP for a
>complete, U2-and-all XY experience. FW.
>
>On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Harry Binswanger
>mailto:hb@xxxxxxxxhb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
≫I'm interested in getting a Mac and using Xy on it. Could you forward to
≫me either the search you used or the info you found? Forget it if it's a
≫lot of trouble.
≫
≫--Harry
≫
≫>It is useful: yesterday I found information on using XY on a Mac. Thanks
≫>to RH for this resource. FW
≫>
≫>On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Robert Holmgren
≫>mailto:holmgren@xxxxxxxxholmgren@xxxxxxxx>
≫>wrote:
≫≫
≫≫Hello All.
≫≫
≫≫XySearch is up and running again, and updated to yesterday:
≫≫
≫≫Ã?
≫≫http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/xysearch.cgihttp://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/xysearch.cgi
≫≫
≫≫It needs a bit massaging, to rid extraneous headers introduced
≫≫by
≫≫http://freelists.orghttp://freelists.orgfreelists.org
≫≫and to make sure that lines wrap correctly
≫≫(http://freelists.orghttp://freelists.orgfreelists.org
≫≫does not auto-wrap lines the way CCAT did).
≫≫
≫≫But it works well.
≫≫
≫≫Hope it's useful.
≫≫
≫≫-----------------------------
≫≫Robert Holmgren
≫≫mailto:holmgren@xxxxxxxxholmgren@xxxxxxxx
≫≫-----------------------------
≫
≫
≫Harry Binswanger
≫mailto:hb@xxxxxxxxhb@xxxxxxxx
≫


Harry Binswanger
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