multiple operating systems (parallels and proxmox)
Doug Easterbrook
doug at artsman.com
Mon Sep 20 16:55:53 UTC 2021
ok. and forgot to say…about performance.
if you use parallels, you can run ALL your operating systems at the same time (or, at least as much as you have memory and cpu cores before you box down). I’ve had 6 or 6 running at the same time on a 6 core macbook with 32 gigs ram and 3 or 4 with a 4 core i7, 16 gig macbook pro.
you don’t need to partition your disk. just run mac os within the base mac. makes it for snapshotting, starting managing all the different operating systems.
Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
mailto:doug at artsman.com
http://www.artsman.com
Phone (403) 650-1978
> On September 20, 2021, at 9:52 AM, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:
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> hi Juan.
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> yes, you can run parallels in Big Sur. It will run on apples new M1 sillicon - BUT, as of yet, nobody has made any VM (that I’m aware of) that will run x86 code (eg high sierra, etc) on the M1 chip.
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> so the advice is, if using big sur, then this applies to parallels still running on Intel platform.
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> You can run all the VM’s that I’ve created/listed on Big Sur. Most of our team have migrated there and use parallels on a daily basis.
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> The part that apple makes hard is making VM’s for older operating systems. It is still possible to find instructions and download Yosemite and above (from apple) to make it run in a Parallels VM in big sur. You can still find ISO disk images for windows XP and up to get older operating systems into parallels that are no longer supported by microsoft.
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> Since we’ve been using parallels for many years, I started making Virtual Machine images of the current operating system and saving them on our servers. wo when on Sierra, I made a sierra VM. then when we upgraded to High Sierra, I made a High Sierra VM. etc etc.
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> and now I have VM’s for most of my ancient operating systems. and I can use thing like a Big Sur VM on Catalina or Catalina VM on Big Sur.
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> so. yes, you can run El Capitan in a VM in high sierra…. or win 2000 in a VM in high sierra. but only on the Intel Mac.
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> this has allowed me, for example, to run Omnis 5 and 7 on older XP virtual machines or even on my win 2000 virtual machines (which we have done recently to go look at some older business logic). About the only thing I can’t run any mode is my Omnis 3 version of product … because I can’t find that OSX puma or cheetah virtual machine that will let me still run omnis 3.
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> all of which says .. it is worth
> 1) having parallels (or a virtual machine of your choice)
> 2) making virtual machines of operating systems you have used with each new mac or windows upgrade
> 3) hanging on to the last Mac Intel machine before you go M1.
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> and then you can run anything you've made in the past.
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> hope that helps.
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> also, because we use Parallels , we are at the place where it costs $49.99 to update a version and sometimes we wait till its on special for $39.99. We chose to skip every other version of parallels, so that means, in effect, we pay about $20 per year USD for a perpetual licence per machine. We have it on 4 machines, each which upgrades at different years, one of which is a common machine.
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> thats been what we have done. works for us, mileage may vary.
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> What about Proxmox??
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> there are other tools. We use the free version of a server operating system called proxmox on our cloud servers to handle multiple VM’s for windows and linux. Google serach tells you how to set up OSX virtual machines on proxmox.
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> so, if you have linux servers …. proxmox is a great tool to use for larger data centres. then people can sign on remotely to these apple’ vm's
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> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
>
>> On September 20, 2021, at 9:04 AM, Juan Bofill <juanbofillaba at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> Can it be done from a Big Sur install?
>>
>> Juan
>>
>>> On Sep 20, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi Grant.
>>>
>>> Old programmers never die … they just use VM software.
>>>
>>>
>>> I use Parallels 16 on Catalina. If you buy parallels, waut till cyber week in the US, you might get a little money savings. also, make sure DO NOT BUY the subscrption version, get the download licence version… then you don't have to pay for updates you won't use..
>>>
>>>
>>> I’m running the following VM’s on my Catalina Mac Book Pro
>>> - win 2000. (yes.. I still run it and use it to test things - even though it is 20 or so years old)
>>> - win xp
>>> - win 2008 server
>>> - Win 2012 server
>>> - Win 2016 server
>>> - win 2019 servers
>>> - win 10 (older and newer releases)
>>> - Mac OS 10.6.8 (snow leopard)
>>> - Yosemite,
>>> - El Capitan
>>> - Sierra
>>> - High Sierra
>>> - Mojave (so that I can still run studio 5 if need be)
>>> - Catalina
>>> - Big Sur
>>> - Ubuntu linux
>>>
>>>
>>> you have to be using an Intel based max to get all those.
>>>
>>> and you can run the virtual machines in two modes. One is normal mode, where it looks like you are running a windows VM in its own windowl, or coherence mode… which makes the windows MDI interface go away and you just see ‘windows’ windows within your mac environment. its rather clever — so whiel the indow looks like another operating system, it is no longer in a container. Kind of seamless.
>>>
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>>> Making the older operating systems took time …. so I kept some images of them as backup.
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>>>
>>> Doug Easterbrook
>>> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
>>> mailto:doug at artsman.com
>>> http://www.artsman.com
>>> Phone (403) 650-1978
>>>
>>>> On September 20, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Bookit Enterprises <bookit.grant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am in my final year of using Omnis in my business, as I am shutting it down next spring, sometime after I turn 75, which I think is a reasonable retirement age.
>>>>
>>>> I am running 8.0.3.2 Studio on Mac High Sierra, and still using DF files. I use it for less than half an hour a day, so I am not interested in upgrading to a version of Studio 10, nor transitioning to SQL.
>>>>
>>>> However, High Sierra no longer gets security updates, so I would like to upgrade my operating system to Big Sur, and, eventually, Monterey.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to have a partition on my hard drive that runs High Sierra and Studio 8.0.3.2, and nothing else.
>>>>
>>>> A few years back, I did a partition and set up a second Mac OS, but found moving back and forth between operating systems annoying, so undid that. Maybe my memory of the experience is incorrect, or I set things up poorly, or it’s just not a good solution.
>>>>
>>>> I may also want to add Windows to the mix, as there are some programs on Windows I would like to run, which don’t have Mac equivalents.
>>>>
>>>> Potential solutions seem to include Boot Camp, Wine, Parallels, Virtual Box, and VMware Fusion.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have recommendations among these, or some other solution I have not come across, to run High Sierra, Big Sur, and Windows 10 seamlessly without rebooting between systems, and having Big Sur as my primary desktop?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Grant Thiessen
>>>>
>>>>
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