Hi Stuart<br><br>Thanks for the detailed information..... I "thought" these virtual machines (Parallels, VMWare, etc) work a lot slower. A few years ago I used VMWare on my 800MHz AMD-based PC to write/run
a few small programming class projects and it was like 20X slower than when I
installed Fedora as a secondary OS. But I guess the world has changed a lot :-) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderpool">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderpool</a><br><br>I'm sure there is still some performance penalty. You said you are using those softwares; How much slower is it when you
run some Win/Linux application in VMWare comparing to when you run it
in a real Win/Linux OS? like 10%? it would be awesome then.....<br><br>Thanks,<br>Matin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stuart Turner</b> <<a href="mailto:swturner@ucdavis.edu">
swturner@ucdavis.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Matin Hashemi wrote:<br>> There is just one little problem here: I have to reboot the machine
<br>> every time I need to use an application from the other OS :(<br>> Fortunately, I just learned that there is some Free BSD already<br>> installed in Apple OS X Tiger. Am I right?<br><br>Matin:<br><br>There are several options for virtualization under Mac OS X to run Linux and/or Windows
<br>concurrently. I'm running VirtualPC on my Powerbook (not available for Intel-based Macs, but<br>rather moot anyway - it's a dog) and the following two applications on an Intel machine<br>(MacBook Pro) running Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu.
<br><br>1) Parallels<br><a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/">http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/</a><br><br>2) VMWare Fusion<br><a href="http://www.vmware.com/whatsnew/macsignupform.html">http://www.vmware.com/whatsnew/macsignupform.html
</a><br><br>A Beta program that is free for download and use...for now.<br><br>Link to VMWare Appliances that include many Linux distributions, including Fedora, Ubuntu,<br>OpenBSD and others:<br><a href="http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/">
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/</a><br><br>FreeBSD is not installed on Tiger, but Mac OS X runs on an a variant of BSD called Darwin. Darwin<br>is essentially open source (BSD is an academic license, not a reciprocal license like the GPL, and
<br>allows Apple Inc to choose which components to remain open and which to keep proprietary).<br><br>~ Stuart<br><br>--<br>Dr. Stuart Turner<br>Health Informatics Graduate Program and<br>Biomedical Informatics Research & Consulting Service
<br>University of California Davis Health System<br><a href="http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/informatics">http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/informatics</a><br><a href="http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/bircs">http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/bircs
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