* Posts by Matt Piechota

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Windows on Mac: BootCamp vs Parallels Desktop

Matt Piechota

Go for the other computer

I agree with the other computer plan. Most people have a pc lying about they can use.

As for the graphical glitches, I've found running VMs (using VMware on PCs, not Parallels on Mac) are sketchy. If you have a copy of Windows that allows remote desktop (Xp Pro, etc), you might want to try using the remote desktop client to attach to the machine rather than the virtual console. Microsoft supplies a client for MacOS at:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient

It seems like the future will be easier. Xen appears to be getting places with VT (google xen mac), and I'd be surprised if VMware isn't cooking up a copy of VMware Server (the free version) for Mac OS X.

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