“Parallels officially released its Workstation 2.0 product at the end of 2005, entering in the desktop virtualization market where VMware, Microsoft and Serenity Systems International are already. Parallels Workstation 2.0 raised a lot of attention because is the first time a desktop virtualization product features the hypervisor technology. In the following interview Benjamin Rudolph talks about Parallels 2006 roadmap, mentioning enterprise virtualization products and touching hot topics like Microsoft Vista Aero support and Apple MacOS x86 virtualization.”
Does anybody know which intel chips exactly support VT? I’ve been googling a bit about it, and didn’t have much luck.
Specifically, do the new Core Duo processors support it?
Go here:
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium4/index.htm
And click on “View processor number details”.
do you have to have VT support, or would a regular pentium4 or athlonxp work?
do they have accelerated display drivers like vmware or is it as slow as virtualpc?
A regular x86-compatible machine will do fine. And they provide display drivers that can be installed on the guest OS.
“A regular x86-compatible machine will do fine. And they provide display drivers that can be installed on the guest OS.”
True if the Guest OS is some type of Windows. For any other Guest OS the drivers or tools do not yet exist from Parallels as they do in VMWare. The other OS do run though, just without the benefit of the tools and driver package.
You are right. My bad, thanks for correcting it. FWIW: I tried the demo version, and it runs Windows 2000 pretty fast. At least much faster than Win4Lin Pro.
I’ve downloaded a trial version; it seems nice and easy to use, but no USB support which makes is useless for me; I have so many USB devices and I can’t make use of an OS without USB port.
It’s a good start, I hope they support USB in the future.
primary OS: Gentoo Linux 2.6 kernel P4 3.0 MHz 2GB
Guest OS: LiveCD Ubuntu 5.04
i’ve never really seen the point of usb support in vmware.
just mount the usb drive using nfs/ftp/smb or something on the primary, then connect to it via the ‘network’ on the guest os.
That’s fine for storage devices… but not so fine for things like DSP headsets. VMware’s USB support does come in handy sometimes.