Continuing our virtualization adventures, we’re sitting here blogging in Firefox running on Ubuntu Linux, which, in turn, is running in Parallels 3.0 virtualization software (yes, we finally got it running). At the same time, VMWare Fusion is running Windows XP on the same Mac Mini.
On the one hand, I can see what my blog looks like in different browsers on different OSes. On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine why I’d otherwise need to run 3 OSes on the same machine at the same time (though I can imagine why others might need to do it).
However, It is truly amazing that this tiny computer (with a 1.6 GHz dual core Intel CPU) has the horsepower to do all this work at the same time. Software emulators were once synonymous with ‘glacially slow:’ Explorer on Windows and Firefox on Linux are both pretty zippy on this setup. More virtualization TK…
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