Andrew
06-15-2006, 03:14 PM
Parallels releases x86 virtualization software for Mac (Parallels releases x86 virtualization software for Mac) -- Ars Technica, 2006-06-15
When Apple announced the Big Switch, some geeks reveled in thought of running several different operating systems natively on a single machine. Shorty after the first Intel Mac was released, efforts to get Windows booting on the Core Duo iMac were underway. Not long afterwards, we had Apple's own Boot Camp for booting into Windows. At the same time, developers were hard at work on developing virtualization software for the new Apple architecture.
Today—about five months after the first Macintel appeared—the first virtualization software package for Intel Macs has been released. Parallels Desktop for Mac allows Windows, Linux, and just about anything else capable of running on x86 hardware to run inside a virtual machine on a Mac. Unlike Virtual PC, which emulated an x86 processor on Power PC Macs, Parallels Desktop merely provides a virtual operating environment for the other OSes. How this differs from Boot Camp (http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?p=851622#post851622): Parallels allows you to run Windows (or any of several other OS') simultaneously with Mac OS X, and copy-and-paste between them. With Boot Camp, you have to reboot and select Windows or Mac OS, and can only run one or the other at a time.
When Apple announced the Big Switch, some geeks reveled in thought of running several different operating systems natively on a single machine. Shorty after the first Intel Mac was released, efforts to get Windows booting on the Core Duo iMac were underway. Not long afterwards, we had Apple's own Boot Camp for booting into Windows. At the same time, developers were hard at work on developing virtualization software for the new Apple architecture.
Today—about five months after the first Macintel appeared—the first virtualization software package for Intel Macs has been released. Parallels Desktop for Mac allows Windows, Linux, and just about anything else capable of running on x86 hardware to run inside a virtual machine on a Mac. Unlike Virtual PC, which emulated an x86 processor on Power PC Macs, Parallels Desktop merely provides a virtual operating environment for the other OSes. How this differs from Boot Camp (http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/showthread.php?p=851622#post851622): Parallels allows you to run Windows (or any of several other OS') simultaneously with Mac OS X, and copy-and-paste between them. With Boot Camp, you have to reboot and select Windows or Mac OS, and can only run one or the other at a time.