I've had very good luck with VM Ware, it's certainly worth a look if you are using Parallels. I find the performance to be a bit a bettre and the emulation 'tax' to be a bit less. In fact I've seen a number of .NET developers actually run Visual Studio in Coherence Mode this way.
On Oct 9, 5:16 am, "<cfgroupie>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Kai. The only reason I run windows on my mac is for .NET > development and SQL. If it wasn't for that, and the fact that I'm > moving on from CF to .NET I wouldn't have it installed in the first > place. Nevertheless, Parellels is my choice purely because I use co- > herence all the time. out of site out of mind sort of thing. > > On Oct 9, 10:15 am, "Kai Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > :) I just don't like Windows to have full control over my beloved Mac > > hardware > > and to give it it's own partition, that's basically it - and the reason why > > I've made the switch anyway. It might not be a perfectly logical > > justification, > > but I feel more comfortable having Windows just in it's little > > self-contained > > environment on the Mac HD. > > > To be honest, if some of my clients weren't on SQL Server, I probably > > wouldn't > > even have Parallels installed... Well - and for playing with CF/.NET > > integration. > > I do all my other CF/Flex development directly on the Mac. > > > Cheers > > Kai > > > >Kai, > > > >Out of curiosity why don't you like Bootcamp? > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > >Behalf Of Kai Koenig > > >Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 9:40 AM > > >To: [email protected] > > >Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Parallels or Bootcamp? > > > >Ryan, > > > >I don't think there is a def right or wrong here. I personally do not > > >like Bootcamp at all, I just run a Win XP VM in Parallels. > > > >There is another religious question to answer - Parallels or Fusion :) > > >Again - some people are saying Fusion has a better performance - for > > >my usage Parallels 3 is fine though, so I stick with it. > > > >The important thing to mention anyway is - give the MBP enough RAM, > > >then it should be alright either way. I'm running 4 GB of which > > >I've set aside 1 GB for the Windows VM - and that's fine for > > >CF, IIS and SQL Server for a dev. setup. Maybe give it 1.5 GB... > > > >Cheers > > >Kai > > > >>You should install Bootcamp and then install Parallels to run off the > > >>Boot Camp partition. That way you'll get the best of both worlds. > > > >>From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > >>Behalf Of Ryan Sabir > > >>Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 8:20 AM > > >>To: '[email protected]' > > >>Subject: [cfaussie] Parallels or Bootcamp? > > > >>Hi all, > > > >>We want to run a CF Server, IIS, and MS SQL Server 2005 on a Mac Laptop > > >>under a virtual environment. Does Parallels have enough grunt to achieve > > >>this? Or should I look at Bootcamp.. is Bootcamp stable enough? > > > >>thanks- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
