The only problem i had that Debian wouldn’t find my eth0 device although the Realtek 8139too module was loaded. Installation is dead simple and to my surprise, it was enough to convert my Parallels extending image with the Parallels Image Tool to a plain disk which i could use without further changes with QEMU.ĭebian is very stable against the few “hardware” changes.

I recommend the QEMU Manager for Windows Users, as this thingy already contains the kqemu virtualization extension. I already knew about QEMU which in contrast to Parallels and VMWare is a processor emulator and not a virtualization tool and therefore must be slower. In addition: I didn’t want to spend another 50$ for Parallels (i already bought versions 2 and 3 for Mac, should be enough), so i thought about alternatives on my PC running Windows XP as host. My mac is a 2Ghz Core2Duo Mac Book with 3GB Ram, my Pc is a 2.66 Core2Duo Dell with 2GB Ram and Parallels Workstation was way slower on the PC than unter OS X. Equipt with a DVD and my image file from Parallels Desktop, i fired up the PC Version and after fiddling around with some pathes i can confirm that the Parallels Desktop 3.x vms are compatible with Parallels Workstation 2.x vms, at least a vm with a Debian OS inside.īut to me, performance was poor.

So i downloaded a copy of Parallels Workstation to install it on my PC at work. Recently Dell had some very convenient offers on their PowerEdge machines and i could barely resist to buy one, but finally, i managed to: cut the crap, i don’t want to have even more boxes standing around at home.īut i was thinking again: Whats better than one backup? Redundant backups 🙂 For backup and testing purpose i keep a virtualized version of my webserver running under Parallels Desktop for Mac on my mac.

Parallels bridged network no internet