To go along with the release of the beta for VMWare Fusion for Mac OS X, there’s also a new beta (Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta2 (Build 3094)) for VMWare’s chief Mac competitor Parallels.
Parallels has been making great strides on integrating virtualized Windows into the Mac OS X desktop. With this release they’ve […]
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Parallels has won a MacWorld Editors Choice award for Parallels Desktop on Mac OS X. It’s an obvious choice for the award as Parallels is easily one of the most important pieces of Mac software released this year. So congratulations to the folks at Parallels, it’s yet another kudo for what has to have been […]
From eChannelLine, “Virtual machines slated to go mainstream”
Virtual appliances are ideal for SMBs that lack sufficient IT expertise in the configuration and installation process, stated Eunice. “Configuration can be extraordinarily daunting.”
That’s exactly where virtual appliances will have the most impact. They dramatically simplify the deployment of server based software and the SMB market doesn’t have […]
Cohesive FT has released two new virtual appliances for Parallels and VMWare. These appliances implement tools for managing Financial Information Exchange messages based on the FIX protocol. They’ve released Alpha 2 of the FIX - Drop Trade Consolidator and Alpha 1 of the FIX - Execution Gateway Router.
Following up on my post “The OS is under attack” with some input from a few more people.
First Scott Lowe has posted his thought on the subject to his blog, in a post titled the future of the OS.
I guess that depends on how you define the operating system. I tend to agree […]
As a solution for something that’s way harder than it should be, Microsoft has released a virtual machine with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 & 7 preinstalled. The target for this is web developers who are looking to test their sites against both of the IE versions. The virtual machine has XP installed and […]
Yesterday I posted some infomation on how to go about converting a VMWare virtual appliance from VMWare to parallels. Today I wanted to follow that up, by making available a few appliances that are ready to run with Parallels.
The JumpBox appliance was designed for Parallels and the rPath appliances were converted to work easily with […]
From watching the search queries for this site I’m seeing a fair number of people looking for ways to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to run under Parallels. Since I do actually know how to do this, I figured I might provide a little help. There are a number of variables that go into making […]
I’ve been covering a lot of announcements from other companies here on Virtualization Daily but today it’s time to make an announcement about my new company JumpBox. This is launch week for JumpBox and it’s been really exciting and should also make it clearer why I’m so interested in the virtual appliance concept.
At JumpBox we […]
InfoWorld is reporting that VMWare desktop for Mac has the code name “Fusion”. I’m dying to get my hands on a copy of that thing. I didn’t get into the beta. We use Parallels extensively and I think it’s great, but I also need to do a lot of work with VMWare which we currently […]
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