Crossovers and parallels

[Xavier Barker]

You don't even need to be booting the VM everytime you use it.  You can pause it (or save state) and just reload it in a ready state every time you need it, which is a great option if you're seriously so time poor you can't wait a few minutes for the VM to load.  You'll find a lot of software is dependent on a fair bit of backend stuff happening in Windows (like Keyman) which is why they don't work as expected under emulated conditions.    

On 08/12/2011, at 11:24 AM, Aidan Wilson wrote:

> Given how many programs you intend to use, I argue again that a virtual machine is the best approach. I agree that crossover allows you to easily open a project without booting the machine, but the ram and cpu usage is higher when you have crossover and a virtual machine running. It's best to have everything in one VM.
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> Aidan Wilson
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> On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Margaret Carew wrote:
> 
>> Sorry about that, I can’t get it to work either
>> I’ve had the LP/crossovers download sitting here – I just tried running it, but it won’t load my database.
>> MC
>> On 8/12/11 9:25 AM, "Claire Bowern" <claire.bowern at yale.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>      I've had no luck getting Lexique to work on Crossover - what settings did you use?
>>      Claire
>> 
>> 
>>      On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Margaret Carew wrote:
>> 
>>            Crossovers and parallels Thanks for all the input on Crossovers and parallels for toolbox.
>> 
>>            After my own couple of weeks of testing I’ve decided to use both – I’m going with a parellels virtual
>>            machine, mainly so I can use Miromaa, running under windows 7.
>> 
>>            However, I like crossovers for toolbox because you go straight to it (the crossovers/Toolbox icon) and
>>            start up from there. If I need to I can also use it in Parallels, accessing the same files etc, but it
>>            seems to run a bit slower (also has the whole windows start up routine which is boring).
>> 
>>            And I think Lexique pro works the same way through crossovers.
>> 
>>            The cost wasn’t exhorbitant, paid $70 for parellels (on special last week!) and about $40 for
>>            crossovers. (and have access to licences for the big ticket software through work).
>> 
>>            cheers
>> --
>> 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
>>