Bootcamp, Parallels and VMWare

[Henri.R]

Hi folks,

Can anybody answer this question:

is it possible to use VMWare or Parallels while having Bootcamp with all this Windows drivers etc. on a partition?

thanks,

Henri.

[Henri.R]

Hi Tom, thanks.

Somewhere in the forum you wrote Parallels to be faster, so I'm curious about your next tests.

regards,

Henri.

[Henri.R]

I wish I had a Mac version of Lin's slideshow so I could compare it running on the native OS.

Tom

Hi Tom,

I had the same experience with Parallels 4, so then I decided to work with Bootcamp on a separate partition.

I hoped the new versions of Parallels and VMWare were performing better for our purposes, but most of the time I have pretty heavyloaded slideshows.....

Last week I also had a slideshow(heavy loaded in the O & A layers) transferred to a Mac 'exe' with suddenly some pictures unsharp on the Mac; it's a zoom from small to fullframe, but the pictures came up unsharp and stay unsharp. Not a bit unsharp, but more like clouds, I hope you understand what I mean. The Win exe file is OK.

All together I'm back to my Bootcamp partition and that works fine for me with no failures...

I'm afraid that after all we still are waiting for a native Mac version of Pictures to Exe!

regards,

Henri.

[Henri.R]

Lin was nice enough to recompile his stress slideshow to Mac binary format. I'll be testing it on my Mac mini in a few hours. Maybe others will want to test their Macs.

Thanks Lin.

Tom

Hi Tom,Lin

The slideshow runs very smooth on my iMac(2008) with outstanding sharpness and quality (only the sun/earth animation shows some hitches).

Lin, many thanks for all this time you invest for our education!

regards,

Henri.