Thanks to the overwhelming success of the latest MacUpdate Promo, I’m playing with Parallels – a sweet little application that lets you run virtual machines. I converted my Vista Ultimate BootCamp install to a virtual machine of sorts late last night. It was there I ran into my first little hiccup – Vista couldn’t detect my network. After spending 20 minutes, I found the solution was to add another Ethernet network port using Parallel’s network configuration. It wasn’t an obvious solution, but one I managed to figure out nonetheless.
Now that everything’s working, I have to admit it’s pretty neat to run Windows Vista and Mac OS X side-by-side. My next task is to download and install Ubuntu. Then I’ll reach another milestone of nerd-dom – having one machine with three operating systems on it.
-Krishna
I don’t think having 3 OSes in one machine is so nerd. I had about 7 some years ago: 2 or 3 windows (95, 98, NT…), a couple of linux distros (RedHat, Mandrake…) and some other more exotic OSes like BeOS, QNX or Caldera’s DrDOS.
It’s a long road to full nerd-dom. ;-D
I tried a demo of parallels, and decided to use VMWare Fusion instead. They both boast similar features, but I HATED Parallels’ Smart Select (Making .app launchers for windows programs automatically, and polluting my open-with list). No matter what I tried, it just didn’t want to disable, either.
I guess I just like my Virtual Machines separate.