{"id":41,"date":"2006-04-08T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T19:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-10-11T06:32:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:32:01","slug":"micro-review-parallels-workstation-21-beta-for-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/41","title":{"rendered":"Micro-review: Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta for OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Parallels\" src=\"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/images\/parallels.png\" \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\">Parallels<\/a> released this past week a virtualization product supporting OS X called Parallels Workstation. I&#8217;ve been playing with it and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, it works. I was able to install without too much trouble Windows 2000. Since it&#8217;s using the virtualization options of the Intel Core Duo CPU the client OS runs at pretty much full speed. As a disclaimer, I haven&#8217;t put the thing through any serious benchmarking, but it&#8217;s clear that this is virtualization and not emulation going on here. The only thing that doesn&#8217;t currently work is audio or a convenient way to exchange files with the host OS.<\/p>\n<p>I still think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WINE<\/a> is the ideal, but this is a product I&#8217;ll probably end up getting (it&#8217;s only $40) so I can easily have multiple virtual machines available (Win2k, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centos.org\" target=\"_blank\">CentOS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fedora Core<\/a>, etc.) without the hassle of rebooting.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, for fun, I tried to install the hacked version of the OS X install DVD (the one that supports BIOS) and it started booting but crashed quite quickly. That&#8217;s O.K. since it isn&#8217;t a supported client OS. It would have been neat to have OS X running in OS X. Could I install Parallels inside the Parallels client? It would be like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matryoshka_doll\" target=\"_blank\">Russian nesting dolls<\/a> but geeker.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"javascript:void(window.open('http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/images\/parallelswin2k.png','','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=1024,height=768'))\">screenshot<\/a> for those doubters. ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parallels released this past week a virtualization product supporting OS X called Parallels Workstation. I&#8217;ve been playing with it and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, it works. I was able to install without too much trouble Windows 2000. 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