Re: Fw: Windows VM on Mac ?

[grant -at- hedgewizard -dot- net]

   Thanks for sharing your experience with us!

   GRant

     On April 17, 2017 at 9:45 AM Monique Semp
     <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:

     Finally, success. I should've just bought Parallels to begin with.

     After wasting hours and hours fighting with VirtualBox -- and never
     getting
     the Mac keyboard's numeric keypad to work, having constant window
     resizing
     issues, having lousy looking fonts in browser displays, and finding
     that
     installing the VirtualBox Guest Extensions, which are required to
     enable
     clipboard sharing and drag-n-drop between host and guest, destroys
     Windows
     (that is, it seems to install ok, but then the next time you go to
     boot,
     Windows must restore/repair itself) -- I installed Parallels, and
     everything
     just works. It even detected my wireless printer.

     And I've been amazed to receive quick (less than 2 minutes)
     callbacks from
     Microsoft the two times that I've had to call to get my Windows to
     (re)activate on the 2nd and 3rd tries I tried to create a new VM.
     (After the
     first VirtualBox fiasco, I figured I'd caused the issues by changing
     a lot
     of the Windows 10 defaults. So I junked that VM and started over.
     But of
     course the Windows server rightly said that I'd already activated my
     Windows
     10 Pro license. The call center immediately fixed things for me.
     Then when I
     decided to try Parallels, of course I needed another reactivation.

     Moral of the story: don't ever try to save $80 at the expense of
     hours and
     hours of frustration. And although people are complaining about the
     yearly
     fee for Parallels, I have no issue with it. They have to constantly
     deal
     with changing conditions -- both Mac OS and Windows updates -- and
     how can
     they have a paid engineering team if customers don't pay!

     Fyi,
     And my advice is to not bother with VirtualBox!
     -Monique

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