Creating a Mavericks OSX VM on an OSX Host

In case you want to try out some things on OSX without doing it for real then being able to create a VM of OSX can be appealing. Apple allow you to do this if you're runnning Apple hardware. The biggest challenge is finding a way to access the installer.…

VMWare Importer for converting Parallels images

VMWare now has a nice utility called Vmware importer (beta 2) which takes Parallels image files (and Virtual PC image) and converts them to VMWare Fusion image files directly. The app is dead easy to use and from my own test converting some windows images from parallels to vmware I…

Running Ubuntu under Parallels Desktop for Mac

Installing Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake under Parallels Desktop is really easy to do so here's a few pointers how to do it and to customise it to be easier to use via the mac keyboard: The installation Download the Desktop CD .iso image from the Ubuntu Downloads site Create…

Re-map the apple key for Windows under Parallels

A big annoyance when using windows under Parallels for browser testing is that if you are using an apple keyboard you will find that the apple key, which as an apple user you are used to using for copying and pasting, is now mapped to the windows key. This is…