Toolbox crossovers vs parallels

[Frances Kofod]

Hi Margaret,
I have been using Toolbox in Parallels for a long time and it works  
well. As this is the only thing I use I cannot compare it.
Frances
On 07/12/2011, at 9:13 AM, John Mansfield wrote:

> Another Windows emulator is Wine. 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
>
>
>

Frances Kofod
PO Box 1918
Kununurra
WA 6743
08 91692 852 ~ 0438 894957



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