[BNM] Going Mac

[Joe Aliferis]

yes, what I said was that there is a way to have both

VMware can be set to use a bootcamp partition as its HD

It can be then be started both within the Mac OS and as a Windows only 
reboot of the Mac - into bootcamp

Joe

> Isn't a potential downside to the Bootcamp/NTFS method that you have to
> wait for it to boot? Whereas a virtual HD could be suspended and
> restarted at will?
>
> M.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Joe Aliferis
> Sent: 14 October 2008 11:37
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Going Mac
>
> I tested Parallels and it crashed and was slow (dual-core macbook / 1GB
> Ram)
>
> I went to VMware - lovely !
>
> Advice:
>
> Install bootcamp - create NTFS partition - install XP Pro into that
>
> Then install VMware and set it to use bootcamp partition instead of
> virtual HD (file on your Mac)
>
> This way you can boot VMware WinXP in the Mac OS and have option to
> reboot Mac into Bootcamp and run XP with full resources of the hardware
> (no Mac OS running)
>
> This is a super fast version of XP
>
> Joe
>
>   
>> I'm hearing you! :)
>>
>> Parallels seem to think they're faster... But there might be lots of 
>> omissions... And they're using Parallels V3 against VMWare 1.1 (when 
>> 2.0 is the latest)
>>
>> http://www.parallels.com/parallels_fusion/features/
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
>> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Joe 
>> Aliferis
>> Sent: 14 October 2008 11:28
>> To: Brighton New Media
>> Subject: Re: [BNM] Going Mac
>>
>> VMWARE !!!!!!
>>
>>
>> Its not about the features, its about the stability and speed of the 
>> VM application.
>>
>> Joe
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