From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T22:15:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Serious danger of being impressed

Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2007, at 08:45, Peter Cooper wrote:
>>> I'm also in two minds as to whether I should try to switch over from OS
>>> X permanently. I'm new to iMacs, and I have to say that OS X has a nice
>>> polish to it; but then Ubuntu, gotta love those repositories.
>>
>> OS X is great as the day to day desktop, though.. so a
>> lot of people use both. You can use Parallels or VMWare Fusion (the
>> latter
>> currently being free and faster)
> 
> Not on my laptop it isn't ;)
> The main advantages VMWare has right now are limited DirectX support in
> Windows guests, and two virtual processors. Parallels 3.0 could blow the
> former away (full DirectX and OpenGL support, although until I play with
> it I'm not counting my chickens) and it happily uses both cores of my
> Core Duo (at least, CPU usage has been known to greatly exceed 100% when
> doing busy stuff). On the whole though I'd say they both perform
> equivalently and are viable choices for anyone who wants to run multiple
> OSs concurrently on their Mac :)
> 
> 
> Ellie
> 
> Being and Doing are merely useful abstractions for the 'time'-dependent
> asymmetries of phase space.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Well, as long as we're talking virtualization, has anyone managed to get
a Xen system on one of the chips with the virtualization assist to run
OS X as a "guest?" Or does Xen not support the special hardware tweaks
in a Mac? Dual or triple booting is a pain.

Is there virtualization in openSolaris? Will it run a Windows or MacOS
guest?