Thursday, December 21, 2006

Waiting for VMWare Mac

I'm looking forward to doing more Tapestry 4 training fairly soon, and some Tapestry 5 training in the medium future. One important part of my arsenal is missing: VMWare for Mac. Four months ago they said "open beta real soon now" (i.e., by the end of the year). I hope I don't have to lug along my old Dell Laptop, just to run my VMWare Ubuntu image!

7 comments:

  1. I've been using VMWare on Ubuntu (for training classes) ever since I talked to you about it at OSCON. I build it before I go, and then install it on all the student's machines. I can't install it on my MBP, but it's worked quite well. Like you, I'd love VMWare for the Mac - but it's not a necessity to run a successful training course. ;-)

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  2. What about Parallels Workstation? It's supposed to read VMWare images just fine and I've been running all kinds of goodies on it.

    ...Richard

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  3. Anonymous12:50 AM

    Christmas may come, your wish has come true:

    http://www.tuaw.com/2006/12/22/vmware-fusion-public-beta-available/

    Happy Holidays and keep coding!

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  4. VMWare Fusion has been released in beta.

    http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/

    As far as I have tested, it plays existing images without problems. No data on performance yet.

    Laurent.

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  5. Anonymous1:17 AM

    your wish has been granted ...

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  6. Anonymous7:38 AM

    + 1 Parallels

    http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/12/kill_two_window.html

    http://www.parallels.com/landingpage/mac_sp?gclid=CInntrWzpokCFQoSOAodmHOpNQ

    Don't have to wait for vmware. Parallels is very good

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  7. Actually, I do have to wait ... that is, I do need VMWare.

    I need a virtualization solution that is cross platform; the image has to run, freely, on available hardware (typically, windows machines) at client sites.

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