Parallels and Ubuntu as host (or Parallels for Linux)

Discussion in 'Parallels Workstation for Windows and Linux' started by lijan, Feb 13, 2007.

  1. lijan

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    I'm very disappointed. I bought a product which you can't even declare as a beta version. There are great innovations for the mac version, but i think the market for Linux is to small to invest time in it. Next time paralles should say it is an alpha version and give it away for free.
    But i made a list of bugs and missing features and the developers at parallels are invited to use this list ;)

    Ubuntu 6.10
    • unacceptable low speed on any acceleration level
    • no userspace USB support
    • only RAW sound output to /dev/dsp (what about alsa, arts, gstreamer)
    • compile errors (due to symlink sh isn't linking to bash, and no, changing the symlink isn't a solution)
    • modules are not loaded at boot time (init-v is replaced by upstart in Ubuntu)
    • no localizations
    • no gtk2 version
    • no userspace USB support
    • only RAW sound output to /dev/dsp (what about alsa, arts, gstreamer)
    • no support for 64bit Ubuntu hosts
    • no dependencies in the .deb package (manual installation of needed packets)
    • no drag&drop, no paste&copy (across host and guest)
    • really buggy and slow folder sharing
    • crashes sometimes while host machine is under heavy load
    • random crashes (IMHO a problem with qt3 program in a gnome environment)
    • no acpi support
    • no OpenGL and/or DirectX support

    Ubuntu 7.04
    • may be all of the above, but i'm not able to test it
    • Kernel incompatibility
    • i bet there is no implementation for the new 2.6-kernel virtualization modules

    The most problems should be easy to fix. so get it started i need my virtual machines back. Any additions are welcome.

    Greetz
    Jan
     

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