Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Aye. Where virtualization really begins to pay off for me is running multiple vm's on a single hardware platform, or else the convenience of having several operating systems at my fingertips at once. As an IT manager that has really been a huge boon for me. I should also mention that in a Window

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard, VirtualBox was mentioned at least 3 times. I like Parallels too, but I like VirtualBox just as much feature-wise and it beats Parallels because of the price. I agree that a PC might be a better solution, but it isn't always possible to fit a PC in your backpack :-) -- Best regards,

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
jvalle wrote: starting with an old Macbook would like to know your expert opinion about what is the best virtualization solution to run Windows on Mac, from a developer point of view. With any VM the key is RAM. The more the merrier. Anything less than 2GB will make VMs really difficult to w

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I like Parallels, especially because it is capable of creating multiple network adapters and assigning a real adapter to it very easily. This would allow you to connect a server to two different networks for example. It's entirely possible to set up a virtual software router like that. I now hav

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
Virtualbox works always as expected in about apps or web apps testing tasks. Le 2 janv. 2012 à 14:45, jva...@1234web.net a écrit : > Hello, > > starting with an old Macbook would like to know your expert opinion about what > is the best virtualization solution to run Windows on Mac, from a deve

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-02 Thread Colin Holgate
I have been licensed for both of those, and have switched back and forth as one gets better than the other. Right now Parallels is doing well, and I have Windows 8 running under that. I can even publish to Android devices using the Windows version of LiveCode, and the performance in general is p

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-02 Thread Ken Ray
> If not, VMware Fusion is very good, and also Parallels Desktop for > Mac. Just FYI, I've read a ton of comparisons on these two, and own both, and over the last year or two, Parallels has always come out ahead of VMWare in the published reviews. I can back that up with personal experience,

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-02 Thread Roger Eller
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:45 AM, jva...@1234web.net wrote: > Hello, > > starting with an old Macbook would like to know your expert opinion about > what > is the best virtualization solution to run Windows on Mac, from a developer > point of view. > > Thanks and Happy New Year > -- > Jose If the

Re: OFF TOPIC virtualize windows on mac

2012-01-02 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jose, >From a developers point of view, it is important to test your software on >actual Windows hardware. If you don't do this, you may run into unexpected >problems, either because something works on a PC but not in a virtual >environment or because you may write a script that accesses the