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Some one sent me this as an alternative to VMWare and thought it might be of interest to those that can't afford VMWare.


Why choose Parallels Workstation 2.0
. The World’s First Hypervisor-powered Desktop Virtualization Solution: Parallels Workstation 2.0 is the first desktop virtualization solution to include a lightweight hypervisor to dramatically improve virtual machine stability and performance.

. Optimized for Hardware Virtualization: Parallels Workstation’s lightweight hypervisor fully supports the features and benefits of next-generation CPUs built on Intel’s Virtualization Technology “VT” architecture.

. Strong OS Support: A sophisticated virtual machine engine that offers broad support of x86-based operating systems, including the entire Windows family from 3.1 to XP and Server 2003, several Linux distributions, FreeBSD, and “legacy” operating systems like OS/2, eComStation and MS-DOS.

. Easy to Install, Easy to Use: A powerful wizard enables users to create virtual machines in seconds, and the industry’s most user-friendly management console ensures hassle free control operation.

. Lowest TCO: At an industry-leading price of $49 per license, Parallels Workstation is the most cost effective desktop virtualization solution available today



Hardware Requirements and Specification
Primary OS Computer Hardware Requirements
The computer to be used for installing and running Parallels Workstation should meet the following hardware requirements:

400 MHz or faster processor which supports the Pentium II instruction set. 1,5 GHz or faster is recommended.
32bit platform.
Memory to run the primary OS (for example, 128 Mb for Windows XP) plus memory required for each guest operating system and its applications.
Hard disk with 20 Mb of free disk space is required for product installation. Disk space required for Virtual Machines should be estimated according to volume of data you suppose to store on virtual hard disks.
Any SVGA video card with an 8-bit display adapter supported by the primary OS (Windows GUI, Linux X-Server, etc.). 16 bit color depth or higher is recommended.
Optional: a 3.5" floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, DVD-ROM drive.
If you intend to access Internet in Virtual Machine, you should have Ethernet adapter installed on your computer that is supported by your primary OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 or Linux. The adapter should provide the promiscuous mode and supporting network features for a VM. At present, almost every 10/100/1000 Ethernet card can support the promiscuous mode.
Optional: serial port, parallel port.
Virtual Machine Hardware Specification
Parallels Workstation virtualizes a full set of the standard PC hardware including:

CPU Pentium II or AMD Duron;
Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset;
RAM up to 1500 Mb;
VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support;
1.44 Mb floppy drive (mapped to a physical drive or to an image file);
Up to four IDE devices, that may be either virtual hard drives (from 20 Mb up to 128 Gb each, mapped to image file), or CD/DVD-ROM drives (mapped to physical drive or to image file), or both hard drives and CD/DVD-ROM drives;
Up to four serial (COM) ports (mapped to real port, to pipe or to output file);
Up to three bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports (mapped to real port, to printer or to output file);
Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL8029; Generic Parallels Virtual network card;
AC97 compatible sound card;
104-key Windows enhanced keyboard;
PS/2 wheel mouse.







Primary OS Support
Parallels Workstation supports multiple operating systems for use as a primary OS. Supported Windows and Linux version are below.

Multiple Windows operating systems, including:

. Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP0, SP1
. Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP0, SP1
. Windows 2003 Web Edition SP0, SP1
. Windows XP Professional Edition SP2
. Windows XP Home Edition SP2
. Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4
. Windows 2000 Server SP4
. Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
. Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6

NOTE: In case of a Windows primary OS you must have Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher installed.

Multiple Linux operating systems, including:

. Fedora Core Linux 4 stock 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
. Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4 stock 2.6.9-5
. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 stock 2.6.9-5
. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4 stock 2.6.9-5
. Red Hat Linux 9 stock 2.4.20-8
. Debian Linux 3.1 stock 2.6.8-2-386
. SUSE Linux 9.3 2.6.11.4-20a
. SUSE Linux 9.2 stock 2.6.8-24.11
. SUSE Linux 9.1 stock 2.6.4-52
. SUSE Linux 9.0 stock 2.4.21-69
. Mandriva Linux 10 stock 2.6.3-7

NOTE: If using a Linux primary OS, the following software packages must be installed:

Sources of currently installed kernel (if you did not install the kernel manually, then you should install kernel-sources package from your distribution);
glibc [glibc]
gcc [gcc] (included in any development package)
X Window system including
xf86vidmode extension (for fullscreen only)
XKB extension (for keyboard national layouts and leds support)
QT 3.0.5 library multithreaded [qt3]





Guest OS Support
Parallels Workstation supports multiple operating systems for use as guest OSes running on virtual machines. Additionally, Parallels Workstation can be easily upgraded to support any other x86 compatible guest operating system.

The current version of the Parallels Workstation officially supports the following guest operating systems:

Mutiple Windows operating systems, including:
. Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP0, SP1
. Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP0, SP1
. Windows 2003 Web Edition SP0, SP1
. Windows XP Professional SP0, SP1, SP2
. Windows XP Home SP0, SP1, SP2
. Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4
. Windows 2000 Server SP4
. Windows 2000 Advanced Sever SP4
. Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
. Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6
. Windows ME
. Windows 98
. Windows 95
. Windows 3.11
. Windows 3.1

Multiple Linux operating systems, including:
. Fedora Core Linux 3, 4
. Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS3, WS4
. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4
. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES3, ES4
. Redhat Linux 7.3, 8, 9
. Debian Linux 3.1
. SUSE Linux 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
. Mandriva Linux 9.2, 10, 10.1

FreeBSD:
. FreeBSD 4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 5.4

Multiple operating systems from the OS/2 and eComStation family:
. OS/2 warp 3, 4, 4.5
. eComStation 1.1, 1.2

MS-DOS:
. MS-DOS 6.22


Price : $49 so about £27.3

Website : http://www.parallels.com/
 
if you dont want to fork out the cast for VMWare then i suppose, i dont know is short answer i was thinking of buying a copy as VMWare is a little expensive for me. i was hoping that someone hear would have used it and have an opinion.

I'm told its a little slower than VMWare
 
Thats True but to run VMWare free server you need :
S Y S T E M R E Q U I R E M E N T S
Host Operating Systems
• Runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced
Server; Windows Server 2003, Web, Standard,
Enterprise and x64 Editions, and Linux server host OSes

as i understand it, and most people dont have the Server based os.
 
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