parallels is a desktop virtual machine solution for Mac OS X. i installed it on my 17" Core Duo iMac with 1.5GB RAM, 160GB Hard Drive. i was able to create a virtual environment for linux 2.6. i downloaded a gentoo 2006.0 mini cd. parallels was able to boot it with some minor adjustments: i set it so that the vm would use the physical (super)drive.
gentoo booted very well. though i did notice that my machine is designated as celeron-a, 2.7 ghz. i allocated 512MB ram to the machine. i have activity monitor in the background to monitor system performance. needless to say, i had 0% idle time on the real machine while using parallels.
parallels is registered compiled for intel. and i had several apps in the background including my browser which is designated as powerpc. this is bon echo.
anyway--- back to parallels-gentoo. i reached to command prompt the problem now is, parallels has the network as "bridge" now i have to figure out how to set the network card in that regard on gentoo. i'll try to do that tomorrow.
all in all, parallels is a very easy thing to setup. i did it under 5 minutes. so far so good.
in other news, was able to get xen to run domain 0 on my gentoo amd64 linux box. i have yet to compile a kernel for domain 1... which i'm having problems running. i think its just a matter of getting the configuration properly. i did notice a system slowdown (slightly sluggish running gnome on domain0), since the box is now running xen on domain 0, probably because everything passes through the hypervisor. when executing top on domain 0, you could see that the system had already lost ~256mb--- from 1024mb.
so far those have been my observations.
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