Re: [9fans] parallels

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

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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