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Sep 23, 2015 'Unable to detect operating system' Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration' started by YasminaA, Sep 22, 2015.

Time for another look at virtualization software, letting Macintosh users run PC operating system such as Windows or Ubuntu on their Macs. There are three competitors in the Mac emulation market – Parallels Desktop (US$79 or as an annual $99 subscription Pro version), VMware Fusion (also US$79), and Oracle’s (free and open source) VirtualBox.

Should you care?

Not every Mac-user needs or wants the ability to run other operating systems. For many, they chose to be a Mac-user because they don’t want to have to have anything to do with other operating systems.

Still, some of us want or need to do so. Reasons can include a need for a specific piece of software that doesn’t have a Mac-equivalent or has a Mac-equivalent that isn’t file-compatible with the software colleagues or clients are using. (Bookkeeping, perhaps?) Software developers may need to compile and then test code to work on multiple platforms. Web developers and designers may need to see how their pages look in multiple browsers on multiple platforms.

Gamers may want to play games that haven’t been released for the Mac – and maybe never will be. It may even be useful for some to install a virtualized copy of Mac OS X on their Mac, allowing them to test software or settings without affecting their “real” Mac installation. Good for trying pre-release preview OS versions, perhaps.

Me? I’m just curious. It seems like a neat thing to be able to do.

A bit of back-story: From their 1984 beginnings until 2006, Apple’s Macintosh computers ran on a different family of processors than the sorts of PCs that the majority of the business and home market was using. One result of that was that there was a deep gulf between the Mac operating system and PC operating systems like MS-DOS and Windows.

A few Mac users purchased hardware add-ons that essentially put a PC-style processor inside their Mac alongside the original processor, letting them switch between operating systems. Others ran emulation software such as Virtual PC, letting them translate instructions intended for PC operating systems into instructions that could be performed by their Mac’s processor. This worked, letting them run Windows or other PC operating systems – very slowly. (Try reading a book in a foreign language that you don’t understand by looking up every word in a dictionary to get an idea what it was like).

In 2006, Apple started making Macs built-around PC-standard Intel processors in place of the PowerPC family of processors it had been using. In doing that, they made it possible for Macs to also run other PC-style operating systems directly, instead of in the slow translation of emulation software.

This can happen in a variety of ways. Apple’s Boot Camp provides the tools for Mac users to partition their hard drives, install a recent version of Windows, and have their Mac boot to their choice of Mac OS X or Windows. Benefit – maximum performance for each operating system since, when running, it has direct access to all the system memory and other hardware resources. Downside – it only supports Windows (at least directly) and when booted to Windows, users have no access to their Mac.

Another method – open source project WINE (also available as the commercial project CoveWeavers CrossOver) installs a set of library files that allow users to run (some) Windows applications on Unix-style operating systems (including Mac OS X) without installing or booting to Windows. Benefit – users can run (some) Windows applications directly on their Mac without the added hard drive space needed to install Windows or time lost waiting for Windows to boot up. Downside – only a fraction of the massive library of Windows applications is supported.

In a way, virtualization software combines the advantages of BootCamp and WINE – after installing one of these products, you can install one or more PC operating systems on your Mac and run them without needing to reboot your Mac. You can switch between Windows (or Linux or what have you) applications and Mac applications without missing a trick – often copying and pasting between the two environments and even dragging and dropping between the two. Performance can be nearly as good as you’d get booting directly to the PC operating system.

Downside – since you’re running two operating systems simultaneously – Mac OS X (a.k.a. the “host” operating system) and Windows or other OS (a.k.a. the “guest” operating system) – you need enough memory to allow both to run comfortably at the same time. You can run Windows 10 on a system with one GB of RAM – I did this recently on a Toshiba Encore 2 tablet – but you probably want more to actually get anything done. I wouldn’t want to use virtualization software on a system with less than 4 GB of memory. 8 GB (or more) would be better. And if you’re looking to play Windows games, note that DirectX support under these virtualizers – while improving – is not yet as good as you might be wanting. In that case, you might prefer to install Windows using BootCamp.

Parallels Desktop was first released in June 2006, not long after Apple released its first Intel-powered Macs. VMware Fusion was first released in August 2007 – the company has long offered products giving users of other PC operating systems the ability to virtualize multiple operating systems. VirtualBox, also first released in 2007, is a free virtualization environment that was acquired by Oracle in 2010 (but is still free), with versions for host operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Sun Solaris.

Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro. Jul 25, 2006 I know that VMWare and Virtual PC (for the PC) are now free, but a little company like Parallels can't afford that. They don't have the corporate business like VMWare and they aren't Microsoft. They are the only Mac virtualization package at any price. Popular free Alternatives to Parallels Desktop for Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD, Web and more. Explore 24 apps like Parallels Desktop, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community. Provides info on Sun VirtualBox, the free alternative to Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMWare Fusion, and more. Hosting and bandwidth provided by MacAce.net. Both Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMWare Fusion are available for download with a free trial and are reasonably priced. Free alternative to parallels for mac. Wine is another good free alternative to Parallels Desktop. Wine is a software which allows users to run software which were written for windows operating system on a Unix-like operating system. Instead of being an emulator, Wine is a compatibility layer which allows easy execution of windows based software on a Unix-like OS.

For the past few years – and versions – Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion have been in lockstep, releasing new versions whenever there’s a new version of Mac OS X or Windows – and often releasing their new versions at nearly the same times. This year, with new versions of both OS X and Windows, Parallels Desktop 11 was released on August 19, 2015, while VMware Fusion 8 was released on August 24. VirtualBox, as an open source project, has had a slower pace of development and is currently on versio

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