{"id":582,"date":"2009-06-23T18:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-06-27T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T08:38:46","slug":"paralles-desktop-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Paralles Desktop 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The software that I&#8217;ll definitively not recommend you. The question is why? Because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With version 3 and 4, I were not able to use it easily with my bootcamp partition (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.parallels.com\/showthread.php?t=31190&amp;page=3&amp;highlight=Make+read%2Fwrite+permissions+disk.\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The support was with version 3 non existant (an email posted on 8 july 2007 is still unanswered) and with version 4 still have no clue, after more than 6 months of availability, of basic problems.<\/li>\n<li>The company does not seems to improve its product but to add as much as possible features even if still in &#8220;beta&#8221; stage.<\/li>\n<li>The software engineers still don&#8217;t know to programm an application that is location independant.<\/li>\n<li>The software engineers aren&#8217;t able to write meaningfull error messages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2009\/06\/image1lau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-584\" title=\"image1lau\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2009\/06\/image1lau.jpg\" alt=\"image1lau\" width=\"421\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2009\/06\/image1lau.jpg 547w, https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2009\/06\/image1lau-300x94.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a>What do you think that such a message can be meaning. Of course that the location of your currently installed application is not ok.<\/p>\n<p>In any case I would recommend you to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">VMWare<\/a> that works a lot better (according to my test) or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual box is becoming definitively an interesting alternative. It&#8217;s free, it works without hitch with Windows 7 and Open Solaris. The only point is that you cannot move the application away from the \/Application directory (yes it&#8217;s one reason because I dismissed Parallels, but VirtualBox is free and comes from Unix System).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The software that I&#8217;ll definitively not recommend you. The question is why? Because: With version 3 and 4, I were not able to use it easily with my bootcamp partition (see here). The support was with version 3 non existant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/?p=582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}