Well, for as much as Parallels touted their Desktop 4 product is 50% faster, I have to admit that I’m initially impressed with Fusion’s speed. Its running extremely well on the same virutal machine that I imported from Parallels. The only nagging problem is the stuipid Norton Antivirus which apparently thinks I have changed systems [...]
Since I’ve blogged about my great problems with the Parallel’s Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I couldn’t not post this in case you’ve found yourself in the same boat. VMware Fusion is being offered at 50% off for Cyber Monday. (Just use the coupon code “CyberMondayDeal” on checkout). In addition, if you are a Parallels Desktop or [...]
Well, after a week of issues with the Parallels Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I trashed my VM that I have lovingly used for the past year and I have started over with a fresh import from the Virutal PC VHD file I keep on hand. See, here is my history with Windows virtualization on the Mac: [...]
Well, it seems that my problem isn’t with the new version of Parallels Desktop, but with the VM image that I have upgraded, several times. A little background: my Windows XP is a licensed copy originally purchased with Virtual PC back in the PowerPC days of Mac. I imported this image into Parallels in version [...]
I was an early adopter for the Intel Mac phenom. Parallels was much faster to market with their Mac virtualization product and so I have been a loyal user of Parallels Desktop since it was introduced. I have tried VMware Fusion and I’m fond of the product, but Apples to Apples (pun intended), the softwares [...]
We met with Dell via conference call last week to go over their offering for thin-clients. They basically showed off their Optiplex FX160 thin client. To me, its more of a very small PC than thin-client with options of adding a hard drive and other hardware. It does run XP Embed or a SUSE LInux. [...]
One topic that I have not been able to blog about from VMworld was the VMware View announcements. I didn’t get a lot of detail, but the introduction during the keynotes did peak my interest quite a bit. My company is currently evaluating its options for doing virtualized desktops. We feel like there are some [...]
My flight leaves tomorrow to VMworld in Las Vegas. I’m making my last minute plans about what to do and see in addition to attending the conference. For the few of you currently keeping tabs on my blog, I’ll be updating with information I get from the conference and posting some ideas on Twitter (username [...]
Since June of 2006, I’ve worked for HTC (Horry Telephone Cooperative), which by the way is the national’s largest telephone cooperative. Its offered me some great experiences and training opportunities. One of those is exposure to virtualization technologies. And this one comes with a story. When I started at HTC, my wife was pregnant and [...]
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