If you have funky USB devices and want to hook them up, ideally running Win7 natively would be the best solution, ( no OS switching then.
Was pretty amusing.Īlso keep in mind of how you are going to use the Win7 guest. VB works awesome with just about any operating systems I've run in it, even OSX -) I used to have an old Dell laptop I had linux on that would run OSX in a VirtualBox. IMHO, I've always used VirtualBox, over VMware products, Parallels, Boot Camp, etc., for home stuff. Granted these aren't things you are probably doing but it does affect things in case of a disaster recovery situation. The normal way to clone OSX becomes even more painful. And that also applies to your Mac installation.
The are no migration tools, nor any standard way to copy the system over to new hardware, or even restore it after a clean install. In other words, If I wanted to clone the VM and move it to a new MacBook, you'd be out of luck.
Same for Boot Camp, but it has even worse problems with the disk partitioning, and consumes space on your existing system, ( I believe it actually shrinks your OSX partitions ). However, it leaves you limited to it's technology as far and the second OS goes. Parallels costs $$, who wants that? But since you've already acquired it, it's worth playing with. But, Parallels 7 is supposed to be pretty darned close to native at this point, and the processor is a current i7, so I'm hoping for reasonable performance for office tasks / gps tasks.Īny thoughts, suggestions, or things i"m missing would be appreciated. The first option will not allow native use of the hardware, which will somewhat hurt performance. I'm wondering about the licensing/activation issues for having 2 separate versions of windows running on the machine, though it appears that it goes OK if you start with Boot Camp, activate, and then run the parallels install. Then install/run Parallels, which can run off of the Boot Camp install, or run completely separately (or both). Second option: Set up Windows 7 using Boot Camp, allocating half the drive or so to the windows partition. Will only be able to use Windows within the VM I'm trying to figure out the best way to install it for my needs:įirst option: Set up Parallels, install a virtual image of W7. I now own Parallels 7, and a full copy of Windows 7. I will not be running any particularly intensive games or video editing. I need to run a few PC-only apps (GPS stuff, mainly, but some work stuff as well).
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