Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, now what?

Re:Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, n... by kamidev on Sunday June 14, 2009 @04:51AM (#656962)

Personally, I am very happy with VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro. I can comfortably run OS X and other platforms running simultaneously, in my case: Ubuntu, Debian and Windows XP.

4 GB of RAM isn't strictly necessary but makes things more comfortable. I fully agree with jballanc about Spaces and full screen mode - that is really nice!

Consider also that VMWare has good support for virtual networking. For instance, you can have your Debian server running in one virtual machine serving desktop clients running in their own virtual machines. Testing client/server stuff that way has saved me lots of time.

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Re:Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, n... by CyberFonic on Sunday June 14, 2009 @08:07AM (#657037)

I second the vote for VmWare ! I use it extensively with 4G RAM. You should have no problems running three environments concurrently if not more. I prefer NFS rather than CIFS due to better retention of permissions, etc. I use Python and wxPython in my line of work and it's almost freaky watching the same program run from NFS share on the three environments. Just need to watch some Win32 compatability issues, most are well documented.

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Re:Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, n... by bjplink on Sunday June 14, 2009 @12:23PM (#657224)

Third vote for Fusion. I'm on 4 gigs of RAM as well and I run XP alongside my other programs all day without problems.

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