On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 20:38 -0800, Joe Sloan wrote:
Tom Patton wrote:
It's been a year or two back, but Parallels was very stable for me. I see they've won several awards this year, perhaps it should be on your candidate list...?
Just a war story, feel free to disregard -
I checked out parallels, which I noticed was at version 3.0 for mac, and only at version 2.2 for linux. It installed OK, but it made my otherwise solid suse 10.3 machine quite unstable. It could not get through an install of a guest OS - I tried xp and suse 9.3 more than once. Each time the result was a system hang. I can only surmise that the kernel modules inserted by parallels were bad mojo, so I gave up on parallels.
I next tried vmware workstation, which in contrast was rock solid. I played quake, listened to music and browsed the web as expee was installing, and expee appeared to run perfectly after the install.
Just some data points for your consideration.
Joe Good to know, Joe. I was using it for XP on top of 9.3...but haven't needed it since back then. I was wondering why there was no chatter about it recently on the list...perhaps experiences such as yours is why...
BTW, after I wrote my post, I called another guy at work (a machead), and he said he moved from Parallels to VMware on his mac about 6 months ago... I also recall now that it would set the taint flag on the kernel, and made upgrades difficult. Such is life, I guess. Forget I mentioned it ;-) Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org