<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have tried both parallels and Wine on OSX.<div><br></div><div>My sentiments for parallels are similar to Aidan's on Virtualbox. The newer versions seem to work quite well and are nicely integrated with OSX. I even used to write in Word 07 on a virtual windows machine because of my dislike of the pervious office for mac 2008.</div><div><br></div><div>I did have a few issues getting some network printers working, but they might be better in the most recent release. You can trial it for free for 14 days if you have a spare XP or Win 7 license hanging around. My biggest complaint that is if you don't use it often then sometimes it and the virtual machine can take time to do all its updates etc before working again.</div><div><br></div><div>Compared to a Wine version of toolbox I found parallels much better. The Wine version I was using had extremely annoying bugs with keystrokes, in particular modifier keys and special characters. Copying and pasting wasn't as efficient as parallels. Finally I really got annoyed with the startup of the Wine-Toolbox program. This may have been specific to our version but it required a ridiculous amount of tedious directory navigation to even open a toolbox 'database'. In fact file navigation in Wine is just bad.</div><div><br></div><div>My latest solution is to abandon the useful but flawed toolbox...perhaps write my own dictionary/interlinear function.</div><div><br></div><div>Further news they/we are working on getting interlinearisation into Elan though this is early days yet - perhaps 2012 sometime, though no promises. Some folks in Paris have developed a plugin that kinda works, which I have used to limited success, but I wouldn't suggest it for a long term or robust solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Jeremy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Jeremy Hammond</div><div>Syntax, Typology and Information Structure Group</div><div>Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics</div><div>P: +31-24-3521171 </div><div>E: <a href="mailto:Jeremy.Hammond@mpi.nl">Jeremy.Hammond@mpi.nl</a></div><div>W: <a href="http://www.mpi.nl/people/hammond-jeremy">http://www.mpi.nl/people/hammond-jeremy</a></div><div><br><div><div>On 07/12/2011, at 2:30 AM, Aidan Wilson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I also used virtual box on a linux host to run guests such as sun, free BSD, <br>and Windows (I still use the same Windows 'disk' as I used back then; they're <br>sharable too, they're just a .vdi (virtual disk image) file in the Virtal Box <br>directory) and never had much of an issue. Haven't tried running it on a <br>Windows host however.<br><br>I also used Wine on Linux and that worked okay. It got better with age, by <br>which I mean that later releases were less buggy than the terrible early <br>releases (but now I see the excellent pun). I haven't tried Wine on anything <br>else but Linux.<br><br>-- <br>Aidan Wilson<br><br>PhD Candidate in Linguistics<br>School of Languages and Linguistics<br>The University of Melbourne<br><br>+61428 458 969<br><a href="mailto:aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au">aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>@aidanbwilson<br><br>On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, John Mansfield wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">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.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">platform. I.e., the opposite situation to what you're discussing. So maybe it runs more smoothly the other way round.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">j<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 7 December 2011 11:30, Aidan Wilson <aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Hi Margaret,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> need to have an operating system to install on it. Windows XP is usually quite easy to find.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> then again so can running an entire virtal machine for one program.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> the host and the guest).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> computer has 2GB at least then this is a negligible loss.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> The benefits of using a virtual machine increase when you need to add more programs, in my opinion.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Aidan Wilson<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> PhD Candidate in Linguistics<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> School of Languages and Linguistics<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> The University of Melbourne<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> +61428 458 969<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> @aidanbwilson<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Margaret Carew wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Hi – just wondering who prefers using toolbox with crossovers – or is parallels better?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> thanks<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Margaret Carew<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Arandic Endangered Languages Project<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Alice Springs NT 0870<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 08 8951 8344 / 0422 418 559<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> margaret.carew@batchelor.edu.au<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>