Parallels 3.. and kubuntu 8.04

NickK · 7 Jun 2008 at 09:29

Well I've just got myself Parallels.

Why tell us about it - well I thought I'd say I'm quite impressed with how easy it is to install kubuntu 8.04 32bit. It's a good send to encapsulate the Open source development into a VM thus sandbagging it away from the host 10.5.3 install - especially for GCC etc where apple have their own linker etc the libraries are an odd concoction when compiling applications.

Interestingly they're working on it to support 64bit guest OSes including ... OSX Server.

BusError · 7 Jun 2008 at 12:18

You can have as many version of gcc as you feel like, on osx; just compile it with a prefix for the tools. possibly install them in their own 'top tree' but even that is not strictly necessary.
I have avr-gcc, avr32-gcc, arm-none-eabi-gcc and even llvm-gcc installed on mine along with the official one and it all works.

NickK · 7 Jun 2008 at 13:04

I understand that - I too have the svn autovect etc tools in the past but it's easier as you don't have to hunt down all the installed stuff if you want to delete it (there's no "make uninstall"). In short after compiling two sets of gcc, on fresh install of 10.5.3 I reclaimed 1/4 of my MBP's HD space.
There's also some pre-compiled elf-based binaries that I have for blackfin development. I don't really want them floating around. It's easier in a nutshell to run a VM-linux than todo it natively.

Btw - for kubuntu 8.04 you'll want to hunt down the Parallels 3.0 build 5604 to get the Parallels Tools to install.

BusError · 7 Jun 2008 at 15:14

small side question here; would parallel boot on an existing Kubuntu install ? ie the partition I used to boot linux ? It'd be nice to boot it in a window, in OSX; and still be able to boot it 'native'...

NickK · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:12

BusError said:
small side question here; would parallel boot on an existing Kubuntu install ? ie the partition I used to boot linux ? It'd be nice to boot it in a window, in OSX; and still be able to boot it 'native'...

Parallels Manual said:
The current version of Parallels Desktop allows virtual machines to use virtual hard disks and
Boot Camp partition with Windows XP /SP2 or Windows Vista installations only.

There's also a tool provided call Parallels Transporter which allows migration of a real platform into a VM. You have to run the Transporter Agent on the real machine then connect over the network.. it then makes a VM out that machine. I'd have thought this wouldn't help though.