![]() ![]() Many online backup services have expanded their offering to include synchronization between your PC and Mac devices. This is especially applicable between Microsoft Office on Windows and Office for the Mac, which do a pretty decent job of maintaining compatibility, btw. If your Bootcamp partition is larger than 32GB then you'll have to format it FAT32, a disk format Mac's can't write to so that brings up the issue of not only moving files to your Mac but sharing them between Windows and Mac applications. Or copy your files to a USB drive, connect the USB drive to your Mac, and access it from Windows running under VMware Fusion. VMware Fusion also has a Migrate your PC feature that will move your applications, settings and documents. That's the approach I took to give myself the best performance from the Windows guest OS. ![]() If you want the best performance, start out with a fresh Windows installation. Migrate your PC or new installation? We all know Windows loves to bog itself down over time with mysterious registry entries, startup programs and services, and left behind files from days gone by. That doesn't prevent you from using other vmdk's with additional guest operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.) if you so chose. VMware Fusion treats the Bootcamp partition just like any other vmdk disk image file, the biggest difference being that you must create a physical partition on your Mac's hard drive using the Mac's Bootcamp utility. Bootcamp is the option to use in both cases. Read on.īootcamp or Virtual Disk Image (vmdk)? For my own use I wanted both the fastest disk access and the option to fully boot into Windows. There are some capabilities in VMware Fusion that I find very compelling. And I don't have anything against Parallels - it may work just fine for your needs. I'm just as biased about using VMware, so all things being equally biased, VMware's what I've chosen to use. Those seem to be folks who prefer Parallels anyway (my guess), not independent reviews. Some users on the web say Parallels is faster, primarily in startup time, and some even report it's up to 14% faster. Frankly, I've only run VMware Fusion 3 under Mac OS X and I haven't had an opportunity to test the new Parallels Desktop 5. VMware Fusion 3 or Parallels Desktop 5? The next decision to make is what virtualization software will you run. ![]() Unless you're doing heavy CPU crunching applications on either Mac OS X or the guest Windows OS, ram and disk I/O should be your first consideration. If you're doing less in Windows while running it as a guest OS under Mac OS X, then you might be able to get by with 2GB of ram, but I would recommend having 4GB or more ram in your Mac.ĬPU speed? My experience on other platforms running VMware, Hyper-V and Xen is that CPU power often isn't the bottleneck with servers running virtualized instances (though there can be exceptions). Is Your Hardware Adequate? While I can't say I've tested running Windows virtualized on Macs with a wide range of hardware configurations, common sense says you'll probably want 4MB of ram so you can allocate around 1GB or so to Windows running under your virtualization software. I've owned Macs since my first Mac Plus.) Given my experience so far, I thought I'd share with you some important questions, what tools I've used and the lessons learned I've gained during this "experiment". (I know, all those readers who assumed I know nothing about Macs will be shocked, lol. Thus my blog post yesterday about working on a virtualized Windows desktop. Thus, came the need to figure out: 1) what would it take to set up a MacBook Pro with Windows as a virtualized guest OS, and 2) what would it take for me to comfortably operate with a foot in both the Windows and Mac OS X worlds. Windows 7 is my primary desktop but lately the amount of iPhone work I've been doing has prompted me to swap hardware so I could have my Mac Xcode development environment with me when I'm mobile.
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