<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Margaret,<div>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.</div><div>Frances<br><div><div>On 07/12/2011, at 9:13 AM, John Mansfield wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Another Windows emulator is <a href="http://www.winehq.org/">Wine</a>. 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.<div><br></div><div> 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.<br> <div><br></div><div>j<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 December 2011 11:30, Aidan Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au">aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Margaret,<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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).<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> The benefits of using a virtual machine increase when you need to add more programs, in my opinion.<br> <br> 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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> -- <br> Aidan Wilson<br> <br> PhD Candidate in Linguistics<br> School of Languages and Linguistics<br> The University of Melbourne<br> <br> <a href="tel:%2B61428%20458%20969" value="+61428458969" target="_blank">+61428 458 969</a><br> <a href="mailto:aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au</a><br> @aidanbwilson</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> <br> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Margaret Carew wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi – just wondering who prefers using toolbox with crossovers – or is parallels better?<br> <br> thanks<br> --<br> Margaret Carew<br> Arandic Endangered Languages Project<br> Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education<br> Alice Springs NT 0870<br> 08 8951 8344 / 0422 418 559<br> <a href="mailto:margaret.carew@batchelor.edu.au" target="_blank">margaret.carew@batchelor.edu.<u></u>au</a><br> <br> <br> </blockquote> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Frances Kofod</div><div>PO Box 1918</div><div>Kununurra</div><div>WA 6743</div><div>08 91692 852 ~ 0438 894957</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>