Ken, Agreed. But for testing, it's perfect.
Wayne On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Ken Springer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/18/11 11:48 AM, Wayne Borean wrote: > >> Um, yes, the thread is messed up. Never used Parallels or Boot Camp >> myself, >> but I have had good success with Virtual Box from Oracle/Sun. It's a bit >> tricky the first go around, but once you get used to it, it's really neat, >> and you can run as many different operating systems as you have disk space >> for. At one time when I was really feeling insane I had 20 different >> Virtual >> Machines set up. >> >> Ended up deleting most of them - let's face it. No one has the time to run >> 20 different virtual machines :) But you can do it. And Virtual Box comes >> in >> Linux, OS X, Windows, and BSD versions, so you can use the same program on >> different boxes. >> >> Just like LO/OO. >> >> Wayne >> >> > The downside of any virtual machine, i.e. Parallels, Virtual Box, and VM > Fusionware, is it uses part of the computer's RAM inside of OS X, leaving > you with less RAM for OS X to use. Essentially, you are multitasking your > computer to death. > > With Boot Camp, it's an either/or situation. Run Boot Camp with a > different OS, no OS X available, or run OS X. You've basically switched to > a different computer, just using the same hardware. Just another way of > doing a multiboot situation, which I also have thought about doing on my > iMac. > > > > Ken > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
