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?
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.
On of these threads might help for Solaris:
http://forum.parallels.com/thread1782.html
http://forum.parallels.com/archive/index.php/t-249.html
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.