Toolbox crossovers vs parallels

[John Mansfield]

Another Windows emulator is Wine <http://www.winehq.org/>. I haven't used
it myself, but enough people have recommended it to me that I would check
it out if I wanted to go down this path.

I've had very thorny problems with VirtualBox - too much boring detail to
describe here - but that was when I was using it to run a Linux virtual
machine on a Windows XP platform. I.e., the opposite situation to what
you're discussing. So maybe it runs more smoothly the other way round.

j

On 7 December 2011 11:30, Aidan Wilson <aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Margaret,
>
> I run Toolbox using a virtual machine through VirtualBox, a VM cient
> written by Sun Microsystems some time ago and since bought by Oracle. It's
> still free, but you need to have an operating system to install on it.
> Windows XP is usually quite easy to find.
>
> I've never used Crossover, but I've seen others use it an seen how clunky
> it can be to load software in it. Emulators in general I think can be a bit
> awkward, but then again so can running an entire virtal machine for one
> program.
>
> One good thing about virtualbox is that it has seamless integration with
> the host operating system, so I can now copy-paste between windows and mac,
> and I can 'hide' the windows background and auto-hide the start bar, so
> it's essentially invisible, but the toolbox windows sit in the same space
> as everything else. You can also mount local (host machine) directories,
> such as your entire home directory, on the guest machine so they render as
> networked folders (on a virtual network between the host and the guest).
>
> When I first used virtualbox, I created a disk image that had just about
> everything stripped out of it (IE, outlook, windows 'live' things, office
> things, etc.) so that it was a really small operating system. Despite this
> it's still a huge space hog. And you also have to allocate a certain amount
> of ram to it for when it's running, but as I only have a couple of things
> on it (toolbox and any other program I need that isn't available on Mac) it
> generally only needs 512MB ram. If your computer has 2GB at least then this
> is a negligible loss.
>
> The benefits of using a virtual machine increase when you need to add more
> programs, in my opinion.
>
> Can't speak to parallels, but I've used VM ware fusion and I think the
> free and open-source Virtal Box is superior to it in every conceivable way.
>
> --
> Aidan Wilson
>
> PhD Candidate in Linguistics
> School of Languages and Linguistics
> The University of Melbourne
>
> +61428 458 969
> aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au
> @aidanbwilson
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Margaret Carew wrote:
>
>  Hi – just wondering who prefers using toolbox with crossovers – or is
>> parallels better?
>>
>> thanks
>> --
>> Margaret Carew
>> Arandic Endangered Languages Project
>> Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
>> Alice Springs NT 0870
>> 08 8951 8344 / 0422 418 559
>> margaret.carew at batchelor.edu.**au <margaret.carew at batchelor.edu.au>
>>
>>
>>
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