[Bio-Linux] Parallels

[Rudy J. Richardson]

Hi,

fyi, I have compared Parallels 9, VMware Fusion 6, and VB 4.3.14 on my 
MacPro 6.1 under OS X 10.9.4.

Each virtualization program works, but for good graphics performance, 
Parallels 9 is far superior to the other two. The graphics performance of 
VB is the poorest by far. I have tested this with linux (Ubuntu 12.04, 
12.1, 14.04, Mint 13, 17, and Windows 7 
guests.

Regarding DEs for linux, I get the best results with Xfce. KDE also works, 
and I have found instabilities in Cinnamon and MATE.

rjrich

On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Tauqeer Alam wrote:

> Thank you very much Steve. I just upgraded to Parallels Desktop 9, and it
> worked. Everything is perfectly alright now. Thanks again for taking time to
> help me.
> 
> Tauqeer
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Steve Moss <gawbul at gmail.com> wrote:
>       Dear Tauqeer,
> Great, thanks! The build environment seems to be setup okay.
> 
> The problem seems to be a lack of support for Ubuntu 12.04 in
> Parallels Desktop 8. See here http://kb.parallels.com/en/122353. It
> recommends upgrading to Parallels Desktop 9. I'd just go with
> VirtualBox to be honest. Though there is also VMWare Fusion if you
> don't want the full VM overheads.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 3 August 2014 13:16, Tauqeer Alam <tauqeer9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>       Thanks Steve. The screen output for "sudo apt-get install
>       build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)" command is-
>
>       Reading package lists... Done
>       Building dependency tree      
>       Reading state information... Done
>       build-essential is already the newest version.
>       linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic is already the newest
>       version.
>       The following packages were automatically installed and
>       are no longer required:
>         bluez-alsa:i386 natefoo-taxonomy libhal-storage1
>       python-numexpr libgudev-1.0-0:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386
>         libavc1394-0:i386 linux-headers-3.2.0-48 libproxy1:i386
>       firefox-globalmenu libspeex1:i386 python-gnuplot
>         libwavpack1:i386 libsoup-gnome2.4-1:i386
>       gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 libiec61883-0:i386 libhal1
>       hal
>         linux-headers-3.2.0-48-generic libaa1:i386
>       libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 liblzo2-2 language-pack-kde-en
>         libraw1394-11:i386 libshout3:i386 libdv4:i386
>       gstreamer0.10-x:i386 natefoo-add-scores
>       libgnome-keyring0:i386
>         galaxy-server-test python-tables libtag1c2a:i386
>       master-pdf-editor-bin:i386 hal-info macs14 libkms1
>         language-pack-kde-en-base libxv1:i386
>       glib-networking:i386 libsoup2.4-1:i386
>       libtag1-vanilla:i386
>       Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>       0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to
>       upgrade.
> 
> Here is the link for  /var/log/parallels-tools-install.log-
> http://pastebin.com/qBT8ZvQR
> 
> I am using Biolinux7, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the parallel is
> Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac Build 8.0.18619
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Tauqeer
> 
> 
> --
>  
> Steve Moss
> about.me/gawbul
> Steve Moss on about.me
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> *********************************************
> Md Tauqeer Alam, Ph.D
> Division of Infectious Diseases
> Emory University School of Medicine
> 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
> tauqeer9 at gmail.com
> 
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