# Off Topic: VMware Vs Parallels for Deployment

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455>\
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**Created:** [June 21, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455 "2007-06-21T23:11:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455/1 "2007-06-21T23:11:47Z")

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I am planning to buy either VMware or Parallels so that I can install  
Ubuntu and use that instance as a deployment environment. I am not  
sure which one is better for this purpose.

Please share your experience on this issue. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455/2 "2007-06-21T23:29:48Z")

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Which host OS will you be using? I’ve been using Parallels on Mac with  
great  
success and while I briefly switched to VMWare the general  
responsiveness of  
Parallels felt a lot better. I also haven’t had any stability issues at  
all  
so my suggestion would be to try out Parallels first.

(Although in my case the client OS is Vista and not Ubuntu so your  
mileage  
might vary)

On 6/21/07, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455/3 "2007-06-21T23:35:49Z")

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I am on PowerPC Mac with 2GB RAM. What is the maximum memory that you  
can allocate to the parallels instance?

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455/4 "2007-06-21T23:32:49Z")

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> I am planning to buy either VMware or Parallels so that I can install  
> Ubuntu and use that instance as a deployment environment. I am not  
> sure which one is better for this purpose.
> 
> Please share your experience on this issue. Thanks.

None with ubuntu. We use Parallels, for winXP, but one of us has been  
using the vmware beta and wants to switch pretty bad.

I just saw a “how to install ubuntu with parallels” step by step in an  
RSS  
feed… google for that… maybe glean something there…

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455/5 "2007-06-21T23:37:50Z")

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Capistrano Deployment Peepcode screencast actually shows how to  
install Ubuntu on Parallels.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455/6 "2007-06-21T23:46:32Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Capistrano Deployment Peepcode screencast actually shows how to  
> install Ubuntu on Parallels.

Direct Link:

[https://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/free-episodes/peepcode-free-deprec.mov](https://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/free-episodes/peepcode-free-deprec.mov)

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-vmware-vs-parallels-for-deployment/107455/7 "2007-06-22T00:11:57Z")

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You can’t run Paralels or VMware Fusion on a PPC Mac, perhaps QEMU will  
do it?

Tiago M.