Re: Mac and Xy

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Peter:

Which version of Windows do you run? And how fast is it? How fast is Xy on
Windows on Fusion?




VM Fusion for Mac works and is stable. I run it all the time on the
MacBook Pro. It boots up Windows contemporaneously with the native boot
of OS X.

Peter


J R FOX wrote:
> Thanks for listing those, Brian.
>
> About a year ago, I saw a rather impressive demo of
> VirtualBox. However, its major company developer (Sun ?)
> was recently acquired by another major company, and
> there was some question at to whether development was
> continuing.
>
> The emulators I've heard the best reports on have been
> Virtual PC, and especially VM, which is said to have a
> free version now. But of course, there would have to be
> Mac-hosted versions of any of these available, for the
> purposes of this discussion -- and it sounds like the VM
> Harry referred to must be one such.
>
>
>  Jordan
>
>
> --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Brian Henderson  wrote:
>
>
>> From: Brian Henderson 
>> Subject: RE: Mac and Xy
>> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 4:16 PM
>> Speaking of emulators...I thought
>> this might be of interest to the list.
>>
>> (Home: http://www.osalt.com/)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
>



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx