[Hidden-tech] parallels / bootcamp question

[Bill Carr]

On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Tom / Reelife Productions wrote:

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> Hello fellow hidden techers:
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> Hoping someone can help clarify how parallels, bootcamp (and other  
> similar applications) work.  Do they allow someone to use a single  
> PC-only application without actually installing windows on their  
> mac...or do you have to go through whole process if installing  
> Windows on a partition of the mac hard-drive (or something like  
> that?)...just to use a single PC only application.
I believe you install the entire "guest" operating system.

I have been using VMware Fusion for about a day now to run Windows  
Vista. It's working pretty well on my MBP 2.33 with 2GB Ram, 250 GB  
HD. The guest OS will need its own disk space. VMware Fusion has a  
"Unity" mode which will allow you to have the guest OS's applications  
act like the host OS's applications. For example I have an IE7 Icon on  
my Dock that I click on when I need to hack my web application to work  
with this ridiculous piece of garbage web browser (sorry, ranting).  
Anyway, with VMWare Fusion (and perhaps Parallels) I may have the  
appearance of running Windows applications inside of OS X but I still  
need to have Windows installed on the virtual machine.



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