Comments on: Dear Gear Diary… http://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jtroyerhttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-23158 jtroyer Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:42:17 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-23158 Christopher, nice article. You do need a beefy machine, but today's default machines are plenty powerful enough to be running OS X and Windows side by side. Everbody, but especially Mitchell and Christopher, come on by and give VMware Fusion a try: http://www.vmware.com/mac. Even though it's still in beta, it's stable and should be well worth your time. It has Boot Camp support and now has Unity, where the Windows windows are better integrated into the Mac desktop than Coherence. You can also check out how others are doing with Fusion in the VMTN Community Forum: http://www.vmware.com/community/forum.jspa?forumID=371 John VMware Technology Network Christopher, nice article. You do need a beefy machine, but today’s default machines are plenty powerful enough to be running OS X and Windows side by side.

Everbody, but especially Mitchell and Christopher, come on by and give VMware Fusion a try: http://www.vmware.com/mac. Even though it’s still in beta, it’s stable and should be well worth your time. It has Boot Camp support and now has Unity, where the Windows windows are better integrated into the Mac desktop than Coherence.

You can also check out how others are doing with Fusion in the VMTN Community Forum: http://www.vmware.com/community/forum.jspa?forumID=371

John
VMware Technology Network

]]> By: Mitchell Okehttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-22677 Mitchell Oke Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:00:09 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-22677 <p>Excellent point, I have Parallels setup to also allow me to boot into my Boot Camp XP install right inside Parallels, but this has limitations, most of all being that you can't suspend your session (one of my favourites with a dedicated XP VM install) and it runs the risk of damaging your boot camp partition if not shutdown correctly.</p> <p></p> <p>Definitely worth mentioning though, as some may prefer to only have one XP install on their machine (either due to space or because their prefer to only have one evil Windows install on their Mac).</p> Excellent point, I have Parallels setup to also allow me to boot into my Boot Camp XP install right inside Parallels, but this has limitations, most of all being that you can’t suspend your session (one of my favourites with a dedicated XP VM install) and it runs the risk of damaging your boot camp partition if not shutdown correctly.

Definitely worth mentioning though, as some may prefer to only have one XP install on their machine (either due to space or because their prefer to only have one evil Windows install on their Mac).

]]> By: xiadixhttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-22654 xiadix Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:45:23 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-22654 This is the danger of reading aggregate sites. I read on Gizmodo.com that Lifehacker had a story that may make you think a little about this. One of not much publicized features of Paralles is that you can dual-boot and virtualize the same OS. So if you just want to boot up XP to do a quick thing you can VM it...but if you were going to do an extended session, you can reboot directly into it. http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/virtualize-and-dual+boot-the-same-windows-on-your-mac-267905.php This is the danger of reading aggregate sites. I read on Gizmodo.com that Lifehacker had a story that may make you think a little about this. One of not much publicized features of Paralles is that you can dual-boot and virtualize the same OS. So if you just want to boot up XP to do a quick thing you can VM it…but if you were going to do an extended session, you can reboot directly into it.

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/virtualize-and-dual+boot-the-same-windows-on-your-mac-267905.php

]]> By: Mitchell Okehttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-22604 Mitchell Oke Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:23:38 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/06/12/dear-gear-diary-10/#comment-22604 <p>As you can tell by my numerous posts on Parallels, I like it, and it has more than earned a permanent place on my MacBook Pro. I have a fully updated Windows XP SP2 install in a VM and it works great for me with 512MB RAM allocated. When I only had 1GB in my MBP it really struggled in Mac OS X, so I think that 2GB is really mandatory. </p><p> </p><p></p> <p>The beautiful thing about Parallels is coherence, which lets Windows programs integrate onto your Mac desktop just like they are Mac apps. Parallels even lets you use Mac shortcuts like Command+V for paste instead of having to resort to the Windows version of the shortcut.</p> <p></p> <p>I also have Windows XP installed in Boot Camp which is use exclusively for gaming. I don't play games much other than at LANs with my friends, so I use the XP VM in Parallels most of the time.</p> As you can tell by my numerous posts on Parallels, I like it, and it has more than earned a permanent place on my MacBook Pro. I have a fully updated Windows XP SP2 install in a VM and it works great for me with 512MB RAM allocated. When I only had 1GB in my MBP it really struggled in Mac OS X, so I think that 2GB is really mandatory.

The beautiful thing about Parallels is coherence, which lets Windows programs integrate onto your Mac desktop just like they are Mac apps. Parallels even lets you use Mac shortcuts like Command+V for paste instead of having to resort to the Windows version of the shortcut.

I also have Windows XP installed in Boot Camp which is use exclusively for gaming. I don’t play games much other than at LANs with my friends, so I use the XP VM in Parallels most of the time.

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