I've been using Parallels & OPENSTEP on my MacBook Pro for a few days and it's by far the best emmulation solution (virtualization) I've seen so far having previously tried VMware Worksation under Windows 2000 & XP and Virtual PC under Mac OS 8, 9 & X.
A few things I've noticed that detract from the overall experience are the following.
1. Lack of audio, Parallels emmulates AC97 audio and I've not found a driver, does one exist?.
2. Mouse though works very well seems to work a bit funny when virtual machine running underload. Mouse basically works erratically or stops responding.
3. I'm not sure as Parallels does not support full screen yet in beta 3 but I don't think the screen res can be set to the native screen res using the VBE 2.0 driver out of Y2K patch 4. Thus in full screen we'll have a black boared, not a big deal but it would look so cool in full screen at native res.
I am unfortunately not skilled enough to work on these problems myself but I suspect certain people here are. I can however help with beta testing and experimenting, I'm not bothered if it borks my install virtual or otherwise as none of my machines are mission critical, I may also be able to supply developer docs and SW, I am also prepared to chip in with other people and buy a license for Parallels for the person to work it out, though they'll probably need a Intel Mac which I can't supply sorry. It might be possible to do the work on a PC as Parallels is also available for Windows but not sure which CPU's on a PC support virtulization (I think there is somethine special about Pentium M/Core Duo that does, I might be talking rubbish though)
Is there anybody else here willing to jump in and and spend some cash in the hopes we can (Mactel/PC users that is) have a real nice OS 4.2 machine. I think it's really worth the effort as for the first time ever I can sit on the bed with my MacBook Pro and play in OPENSTEP complete with Wi-Fi, the works, AFAIK no Wi-Fi driver exists for OS 4.2
Quote3. I'm not sure as Parallels does not support full screen yet in beta 3 but I don't think the screen res can be set to the native screen res using the VBE 2.0 driver out of Y2K patch 4. Thus in full screen we'll have a black boared, not a big deal but it would look so cool in full screen at native res.
Beta4 was released yesterday, and supports full-screen now.
Thanks for the heads up on that, will try it now.
Hey,
I have a 2.0GHz MacBook Pro and would also like to give this a try. I have several versions to choose from:
NEXTSTEP for Intel v3.2
NEXTSTEP for Intel v3.3
OpenStep v4.2
...I have put hands to my 3.2 boot floppy and have all the orig CDs for all the versions listed. I am having trouble finding my 3.3 and OS floppies.
_Is_ a floppy image needed for this install, or can one boot the CD in Parallels Workstation? If a floppy is needed, are the floppy images found here:
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/MultiCountry/Enterprise/of the needed format? How hard was it to get to the point where you are going through the graphical OpenStep install? Do you feel the NEXTSTEP is less likely to work than OpenStep? Thanks.
bp
Hi Blakespot
Follow the instructions in the blog, turning VT-x off is real important or it hangs when the kernel probes plug n play devices.
http://iamleeg.blogspot.com/You need OS 4.2 Install and Device Driver images out of the Apple site, rename the images with .fdd on the end so Paralles will see them. The rest is plain easy.
Not tried NS 3.3, but I don't think there is any advantage over 4.2 on somthing as fast os this anyway. I've been trying to get Rhapsody DR2 up but it panics on me.
Cheers
beta5 has broken OS 4.2, boot hangs at the VBE 2.0 driver.
Quote from: "brams"beta5 has broken OS 4.2, boot hangs at the VBE 2.0 driver.
I noticed similar.
I thought it was hung, but finally it booted noting that VESA hardware not found - it booted in greyscale VGA. I could find no video option added to beta5 that might be tied to that.
Is it possible to downgrade to beta4?
blakespot
"Upgrading" the beta5 install w/ the beta4 installer does not help. I am probably worse off than I was.
Anyone know how to cleanly remove beta5 so beta4 can be reinstalled? Just delete related files in ~/Library/Preferences and the app dir itself?
Tnx.
blakespot
thats what I'm gonna do, but I've deleated the beta4 installer D'oh!, but managed to back up the files.
I'll see if it works.
I have beta4 and 5 side by side, I used 4 and removed the VBE 2.0 driver. I then booted beta5, I did a verbose boot with -v and it hangs on the PCI bus driver now, I tried to boot into single use with -s but it still hangs, I tried config=Defaults but it's still the same. I think it must be pretty serious and the Parallels support forum is down, grrrr.
It would be OK to keep beta4 but it makes one of the CPU's in my MacBook Pro run at full load and the other near idle, and the MBP gets pretty hot too.
Thanks - we already reproduced this and fixing now...
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I have a MacBookPro and I would like to install Open step 4.2 on the parallels SW. There is a way for some one to tell me step by step how to do it?
Thanks.
Manos