Virtualization is the way to go.
I've not used VirtualBox, but have friends who have great success.
Virtualization has some big advantages:
You can isolate different things you do to different virtual machines.
Probably the best example of that is to keep your financials away from
general browsing and E-Mail where you might encounter viruses or trojans.
You can always experiment with downloaded software in a VM and destroy
the VM if you think the download did more than you expect.
When you replace a computer, all of the VMs are just a set of files that
can be copied to your new computer.
73 -- Lynn
On 10/12/2016 9:50 AM, James Bennett wrote:
Ted, John, et al -
Don’t give up! As John said, there are several options. I’ve never used the
Oracle product, but for quite a few years I’ve been running the VMWare product
called Fusion. Currently running on a 27” late 2012 iMac with 8GB RAM. I have
several Ubuntu Linux guests in addition to a Windows 10 guest that run on this
setup. I’ve got quite a few Windows-only applications that I use the Win10
guest for. In all these years I’ve never come across an application that would
not run as a guest under Fusion. I’ve got the applications on the ARRL Handbook
and Antenna book, EZnec, and the software that controls my AIM-4170 antenna
analyzer, in addition to other applications - all work fine.
My logging is done on the Mac OS side - I use MacLoggerDX. Several months back
I built a couple little SDR rigs and drove them with software running on both
Windows and Linux. I used a logging program called CQRlog for logging those
QSO’s. It was a simple matter to export the ADIF records from CQRlog and put
them into MLDX when I was done operating the SDR.
Give Fusion a shot - works great!
73, Jim / W6JHB
Folsom, CA
On Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016, at Wednesday, 9:30 AM, John <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Ted,
I wouldn't bother with an 'emulator' as such, instead what I'd do is go and
grab some virtualisation software (personally I use Oracle's Virtualbox), and
install a full copy of Windows inside that. You can then install whatever apps
you like (as long as they aren't too graphics-hungry), and give that machine
'direct access' to whatever hardware devices you need to - serial ports, USB
ports etc.
I'm not, as it happens, aware of any 'emulators' that let you run individual
apps as if they were running in Windows, but a VM is cleaner (and you'll not
have issues with drivers because every device becomes a generic device once the
VM hypervisor starts passing it through).
73, and a firm left handshake,
John (XLX)
-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dauer,
Edward
Sent: 12 October 2016 17:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Elecraft] Windows Emulator
I give up.
I have tried to be faithful to my decision of a few years ago, to swear off
Windows and work exclusively with Mac OS. But there’s just too much that I
want that isn’t available in OS – Spectrogram, for example, and any number of
logging programs I’d like to try.
It’s not time yet for a new computer, and I want to keep all of my Mac apps and
files intact; so the question is what sort of Windows emulator would be best to
install in the Mac computers. I use a 4-year old MacBook Air as a laptop and
an even older iMac on my desk. Both now run OS X Yosemite and I will not
upgrade to Sierra, in case that matters.
Advice? Thanks in advance,
Ted, KN1CBR
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