hey mac nerds! virtualization?
Feb. 7th, 2014 06:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdIs either parallels or vmware fusion worth the $$ over free solutions like virtualbox? I don't *think* I'm going to want particularly graphics=heavy things like games, and it looks like graphics is the thing that parallels excels at, so I don't think I need parallels. VMWare fusion looks slicker than virtualbox, but I don't know if it's $60 slicker.
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Date: 2014-02-08 12:50 pm (UTC)"The last time I checked (which admittedly was years ago), VirtualBox didn't support direct use of a Boot Camp partition."
I have a BootCamp partition on my MacBook Air for playing games. I have a VirtualBox set up so that I can boot that boot partition in a virtual environment when I need Windows but am not playing a game. It took a fair amount of Googling and fiddling to get to work, but it works.