Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility

Ken,

Agreed. But for testing, it's perfect.

Wayne



On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Ken Springer <snowshed@dishmail.net> wrote:

> On 4/18/11 11:48 AM, Wayne Borean wrote:
>
> > Um, yes, the thread is messed up. Never used Parallels or Boot Camp
> > myself,
> > but I have had good success with Virtual Box from Oracle/Sun. It's a bit
> > tricky the first go around, but once you get used to it, it's really neat,
> > and you can run as many different operating systems as you have disk space
> > for. At one time when I was really feeling insane I had 20 different
> > Virtual
> > Machines set up.
> >
> > Ended up deleting most of them - let's face it. No one has the time to run
> > 20 different virtual machines :) But you can do it. And Virtual Box comes
> > in
> > Linux, OS X, Windows, and BSD versions, so you can use the same program on
> > different boxes.
> >
> > Just like LO/OO.
> >
> > Wayne
> The downside of any virtual machine, i.e. Parallels, Virtual Box, and VM
> Fusionware, is it uses part of the computer's RAM inside of OS X, leaving
> you with less RAM for OS X to use.  Essentially, you are multitasking your
> computer to death.
>
> With Boot Camp, it's an either/or situation.  Run Boot Camp with a
> different OS, no OS X available, or run OS X.  You've basically switched to
> a different computer, just using the same hardware.  Just another way of
> doing a multiboot situation, which I also have thought about doing on my
> iMac.
>
>
>
> Ken
>
>
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