Tonight I decided I was going to install the new distro of the Fedora Project (7). I spent the even downloading the entire 2Gb distribution. After the initial excitement I felt from it’s download completion I started up Parallels, setup the virtual machine – press start… Fedora booted from the CD, started the installation, I selected my language… and then… can’t find media driver? What the hell? How are you reading the data right now? After some web searching I found this to be a common issue in Parallels. My option? Download the distro from repository over HTTP or FTP! Yeah screw that! I just spent the night downloading it – I’m not doing it again.
So what to do…?
Remembering what I heard about VMware Fusion, I downloaded the beta. Installed the product. Set up the virtual machine. And off it goes. I didn’t even have to select my language. Fusion seems far more friendly to Linux distros in addition to Windows. So far the installation of Fedora is running completely smooth I’m about 30% done of the package installation and I’m looking forward to my first run at Fedora.
Reading today of the announcement of Parallels 3.0 – I am curious to learn what there “Linux tools” add-on is in the product. I guess time will tell.
Innovative Thought 