Re: [9fans] parallels

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

no apple-pcs here, but vmware seems to be the faster

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> Yep. I just wanted a version with full acpi support, and it
> seems that version 5 was what I wanted.
> that's handy to debug acpi code.
>
> but yes, it requires a mac.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to clarify... Parallels 5 requires a Mac. There are howerver, older
>> versions for M$ and Linux as well as their Server Virtualization products.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels,_Inc.
>> -joe
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Just to confirm what Geoff said.
>>> >
>>> > Parallels 5 works like a charm with Plan 9.
>>> > Also, it seems to have full ACPI support, not that this is
>>> > important for Plan 9 yet.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
>>> > wrote:
>>> > >> I've heard nothing but bad things about VirtualBox. Mostly from Plan
>>> > >> 9
>>> > >> people(where the results have been uniformly bad), but also from
>>> > >> folks
>>> > >> trying to useother OSes. It seems the worst of the breed across the
>>> > >> board.
>>> > >
>>> > > has anyone tried 9atom on virtualbox?  i think there's a good chance
>>> > > virtualbox has some of the same issues i had with the ich7r.
>>>
>>> parallels requires a mac.
>>>
>>> - erik
>>>
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Federico G. Benavento