Parallels, Bootcamp, and CrossOver for Mac

[Jun aka Pekto]

Anyone here with firsthand experience on any of these 3 programs especially on a Core Duo Mac? Mac users should know these 3 immediately.

Parallels - virtualization app

CrossOver - Wine for OSX

Boot Camp - full blown natively-run XP or Vista on an Intel Mac.


I've read some articles on all 3. But, I'd like to hear from actual users.
Thanks.

[need4speed]

I'm currently using Bootcamp and Parallels... I tried CrossOver a little bit but still found it buggy... I'm running them on a core duo and core 2 duo machines as well...

anything you want to know about them?

[Jun aka Pekto]

I'm currently using Bootcamp and Parallels... I tried CrossOver a little bit but still found it buggy... I'm running them on a core duo and core 2 duo machines as well...

anything you want to know about them?

Well for one thing, how's the speed/responsiveness of Parallels on a Core Duo?
If it's responsive enough, I'd probably stay in Tiger and use Parallels' Coherence Mode.

For Bootcamp, does XP/Vista see the Mac partition and vice versa with Tiger?
So long as one or the other can see files at the other side. I want to try and avoid duplication of files besides using external storage.

[metatron]

Well for one thing, how's the speed/responsiveness of Parallels on a Core Duo?
If it's responsive enough, I'd probably stay in Tiger and use Parallels' Coherence Mode.

For Bootcamp, does XP/Vista see the Mac partition and vice versa with Tiger?
So long as one or the other can see files at the other side. I want to try and avoid duplication of files besides using external storage.

on bootcamp, the osx can see (write and read) the xp partition. the xp partition on the other hand is clueless about the osx partition. xp simply cannot access osx unless you use macdrive (on a fat32 partition).

currently clueless regarding parallels.

[Jun aka Pekto]

on bootcamp, the osx can see (write and read) the xp partition. the xp partition on the other hand is clueless about the osx partition. xp simply cannot access osx unless you use macdrive (on a fat32 partition).

currently clueless regarding parallels.

Cool. Boot Camp is my best option then. I've been taking with a friend earlier and he concurred. He preferred running XP natively on his iMac.

I guess OSX is similar to many Linux distros then. So long as it can see the XP partition. never mind if XP is clueless.

I may try Parallels still just to tinker with. I think it's $80 at the Apple Store.

Thanks.

[roninblade]

my boss is using parallels on his macbook pro.
so far, i haven't heard any negative remark from him.
but then again, he _is_ a mac zealot.

since darwin is based on the bsd kernel it's pretty safe to assume the underlying functionality of OSX is very much similar to linux.