Re: What computer, what software for a lab? (take II)

[Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net>]

There may be one more approach- sharing folders or drives so that 
they're visible over the "network". The other VMs then see the shared 
folders as network resources. I'm guessing that the MAC OS can share a 
folder so that it's visible to a Windoze machine over the network?
This should work within a single physical box as well as multiple boxes 
connected via network.
cheers
Jay

quills -at- airmail -dot- net wrote:
> Both Parallels and VMFusion allow running Windows as an "application" so that instead of two desktops (Mac and Windows) you only have 
> the Mac and the Windows apps appear as an app in the Mac OS. VMFusion allows you to run several different types of *nix, I'm not sure 
> that Parallels does.
> 
> The main caveat is that if you want read/write capabilites to the Windows partition you have to use FAT32. If you use NTFS format in 
> the partition you will have read only from the Mac side. On the Windows side, in order to read or write to the Mac partition or disks 
> you need a 3rd party application. However you can drag and drop between the two windows.
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Mon 08/05/19 09:30 , "Sam Beard"  sent:
>> All,
>>
>> What Geoff says is all true. However, one thing that he possibly
>> forgot to mention is that VMWare Fusion will allow you to run pretty
>> much ANY version of Windows from 3.1 all the way up to at least XP, if
>> not Vista. Parallels Desktop only allows for XP, 2000(?), and Vista, I
>> believe. Also, I heard that one of them (possibly Fusion?) will allow
>> you to run a Windows program just like running another Mac app, meaning
>> that you don't necessarily have to start up the virtualization
>> software,only the app you want to run. I could be wrong on this, but I seem to
>> recall reading/hearing something about it.


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