VMWare Workstation under Parallels?

Not Fusion... But Workstation...

The question is can I load and run VMWare Workstation under Parallels? Will it work?

Our goal is to have VMWare development environments. Each is a small VM with compiler and libraries (and basic OS) only. We hope to be able to load them on different machines to do software builds.

My question is can a developer like myself install and run VMWare Workstation under Parallels? I expect the performance would be poor but the point is just to have a small working environment isolated from WinXP in Parallels.

I know I could simply have other Parallels environments but this has to be shared between Windows users and myself and one other that run Macs.

M

 

Here's a radical thought - why not just use VMWare Fusion to run the VMs?

I sincerely doubt you'll be able to get a virtualization solution working inside a virtualized environment, and even if you do manage somehow to pull it off, it will be so slow as to be unusable.

 

That was my thought... The problem is that I have 15 windows based developers. Each will have a compiler environment that they will use for development that will probably be littered with lots of trial work.

We want to make a VM that has a clean "build environment". Ideally this environment would never be used but on the build machine. But I can totally see cases where someone wants a copy of the environment to "test" a build.

That works fine for the windows guys. We by VMWare workstation for them and they are set.

Now I have 3 Mac based guys that use Parallels (and/or fusion). We'd ALSO like to be able to load the "build environment" and test.

So you raise an interesting point... Are the VM files/formats the same between fusion and VMWare workstation? If the answer is yes, IE can I load up the build environment in fusion (even though it's meant to run under VMWare workstation) then that would be a perfect solution.

I'll ask about the formats over on the VMware forums but thanks for the idea.

M

 

Just a note... It "kind of" works... IE the Fusion VM will open and load in VMWare Workstation but then Windows complains of different hardware... what a bummer.

 

with my experience of Parallels i can say you can't to do this: run VM under vmware in Parallels VM. And from other side running VM in Parallels under vmware also not turn out.

 

The current virtualization technology implementation doesn't allow to run one VM inside another unfortunately.