Free Virtual Machine?

I'm looking for a virtual machine like Parallels, Boot Camp, or Fusion, but seeing how I don't have Leopard that rules out Boot Camp and I don't want to pay which rules out Parallels and Fusion so is there anything left?

 

Boot Camp is not a virtual machine. It just lets you dual boot.

I'm sure bootcamp is still out there "somewhere" for download.

Fusion has as $20 rebate going on right now, making it $60.

 

ok I want either a virtual machine or something that lets me dual boot either is fine but I want them for free

 

There might be a trial version of Fusion or Parallels. But you are not going to get Dual Boot software OR virtualization software that works well for free.

You COULD use VMWare's free virtualization, but I don't know if it works in Mac. Or Windows Virtual Machine, but that only works in Windows, I believe.

You might have to wait till Vista supports EFI to Dual Boot without extra software.

 

Just hang out in the murky dark sinister corrupt evil corners of the internet and get a copy of BootCamp from somewhere.

 

I read that this is a SP1 addition? Not 100% about that.

 

I was under the impression that there was an open source virtual machine program somewhere...

 

Try QEmu, should do the business - http://www.kju-app.org/kju/

Tell me how it goes.

 

Those are great places to hang out, aren't they?!?

When is SP1 slated for release? I hope soon.

 

Q1 next year I believe for SP1. January maybe?

 

Yeah should be Q1, the update is already being sent out to beta testers.

 

SP1 to support EFI

 

I don't understand how to use that QEmu thing

 

lolz, somebody e-mail this kid the hook-up...

 

lol plz do

 

In case you find Boot Camp Beta, here is a helpful Apple Support Document.

Boot Camp Beta: Removing a Windows partition after Boot Camp Beta has expired in Mac OS X 10.4.

 

http://www.kju-app.org/kju/

Could try that OS X port of Qemu. Haven't got my Mac yet, so I can't tell you how good it is.

 

It's also possible to install Windows without Boot Camp and use rEFIt. It's just not as straightforward.

 

Yup that's right Xander

 

i bit on the parallels with 25$ apple gift card on the way.

like others say, all the good solutions for virtual machine stuff are gonna cost money.

im not sorry at all i purchased parallels, it has been a treat in leopard ( as soon as i got my 4gb)

 

I'm using the 30 day trial of Fusion and will probably buy it. Works well enough.

I also have 3GB of RAM, which definitely helps.

 

Lol loving the Count Dracula avatar legend

 

I can't believe nobody has mentioned VirtualBox yet. You need to head pronto to http://virtualbox.org/. This is an excellent cross platform virtualization program that plenty of people use instead of Vmware. Unless you have advanced needs this is in most cases a better and free alternative to Vmware. Its fast, feature rich, easy to use and lightweight. For me its been as fast and far more convenient than VMware. A lot of benchmarks online confirm this.

Another alternative to virtualization is to use Crossover or Wine. Wine is free and Crossover is cheap. These will allow you to natively run many Windows programs on OSX without the overhead of virtualization. I have tried Office 2003, Half life Episode2, yup games too work quite well, uTorrent and many other Windows apps on CrossoverMac and Wine and its quite fast, much faster than any virtualization provided the Windows app is compatible.

You can check the windows compatibility and Wine at winehq.org. A binary build for OSX Tiger and Leopard is available here. http://thisismyinter.net/?p=21

 

Ah VirtualBox! I would of said it first but didn't realise it was avaliable on Mac OS X too! My bad lol

 

I was under the impression ( based another thread) that SamsungFTW only has 1GB RAM (?) and was mainly concerned with playing Windows games. Is that accurate?