No Joy with Parallels
Last week I got myself a nice shiny new black MacBook and so far am definitely in love with the machine and the OS - so much so that I've already fallen away from my open source ways and purchased a copy of XTorrent and Parallels. Unfortunately - as both the operating systems I've tried to install failed dismally I think I should have given parallels a demo run first before buying it (impulse over-the-counter-box purchase).
So far I've tried:
- Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
- Solaris Express
From the simple onscreen instructions it doesn't look I've been doing anything wrong, I wonder if anyone else has had problems with these two OS's out there?
Comments (3)
On of these threads might help for Solaris: http://forum.parallels.com/thread1782.html http://forum.parallels.com/archive/index.php/t-249.html
For Linux, make sure you set the emulated RAM to 512MB or less. Many Linux distros have bugs that prevent them from easily installing on the hardware Parallels emulates when given more than 512MB.I've not tried parallels on my macbook, I dual boot it into ubuntu (edgy eft currently) however - which I installed using bootcamp to partition the disk (and refit to install a boot menu). That works perfectly. I'm not sure what the advantages of using parallels to run ubuntu over dual booting would be? If you're in OS X you're in a bsd environment that can run Xwindows apps and has a good command line - why run a slower instance of ubuntu? I can see parallels as useful if you want to run Windows within OS X to get access to those non-mac friendly apps. If you want to run ubuntu or another floss OS then running it dual boot on the system seems the best way to go, then when you're using it you're really free of proprietary software. I use ubuntu about 95% of my time, just booting into OSX for the odd task.
I have heard some issues with feisty fawn on macbooks, so I haven't updated yet. Maybe that isn't helping with parallels? Try edgy eft or dapper drake (which is on ubuntu.com as the last LTS release)
Good on ya for getting a mac. I agree that I can't see why you'd want to run Linux (without dual booting), given whats under OSX :) But, each to their own.
I run Parallels too - tho for Win2K3 server, XP and Vista. All work perfectly. Another thing - if you install something into bootcamp, you can point parallels at it and run it at the same time as OSX. Personally, if you were going to run non-windows on it, I'd either stick with OSX, or dual boot :) Anyway thanks for the pointer to xtorrent - downloaded, installed, running, paid for. Lovely. N