Re: alternative vm software

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Blouch
: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of joseph Sent: Sunday, 15 August 2010 12:01 a.m. To: MacVisionaries Subject: Re: alternative vm software i tried parallel desktop. it is not accessible but if you get sighted help to set it up once, it should not give

alternative vm software

2010-08-14 Thread chad baker
Hi is there any alternative virtual machine software besides fusion? I'm finding it real sluggish. I wish virtualbox was accessible. I want to try bootcamp but i don't have anyone sighted around. Is there a work around or no? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: alternative vm software

2010-08-14 Thread joseph
i tried parallel desktop. it is not accessible but if you get sighted help to set it up once, it should not give you any problem. hth. Sarah Alawami wrote: Yu can try vertual box but you use the command line. I'm not an export in the terminal at all so can't even give you 1 iota of helpful

Re: alternative vm software

2010-08-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
If you want the fastest windows experience, boot camp is the way to go, since all of the processor and memory resources are devoted to windows when using it. VMware fusion currently is the only accessible virtualization package for the mac, if you give us more details, we might be able to

Re: alternative vm software

2010-08-14 Thread Thuy Mallalieu
I have compared Parallels and Fusion and have found the latter to be way faster. I think there must be an issue with his config because mine was very fast even with its default Ram allocation of 512. Sent from my iPhone On 14/08/2010, at 21:11, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: If you

re-alternative vm software

2010-08-14 Thread chad baker
Hi Mike i'm running a trial of vm fusion using xp pro. I have 2 gb of ram and using 512 mb in the vm. I would love to use boot camp but i'm in a hard position no sighted help around. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To