Category: Geeks r Us
Hey all. I'm loking to run a virtual windows machine on my mac. I'm bored,
and want to play audio games. Since there are none for macs, and I don't feel
like dropping money on a windows laptop, this seems the best option. can
anyone give me some tips on how to best do this? Is Virtual Box good enough,
or should I use bootcamp? Is bootcamp accessible with voiceover? How would I
switch between windows and mac with voiceover on bootcamp? Any thoughts
would be appreciated, thanks.
Hi there
If you want to use Vm, I would recommend VMWare fusion. It costs money, but
it works well than Virtual box. Or, if you don't want to spend money with
VMWare, you'll probably want to create another partition on your drive for
BootCamp. If your Mac has 8Gigs or more, you would probably want to use
VMware if you don't want to create a separate partitions.
I personally use fusion, I've tried bootcamp and yes it's fast, I just love the fact that I can swich from one OS to the other without having to restart the machine to do so. Also, I'm not sure if this has been fixed yet, but after this latest os, hs, people have reported problems with bootcamp saying that if you have it set to start in mac OS, that a msg will come up saying it cant find volume for macontosh hd, so you have to tell it you want to start in windows, and when you need to restart to get into mac os you have to do it through the boot manager. at least with fusion you can tell it how much ram and how many cores you want your vm to use, and you don't have to use 64 bit if you don't want to, I personally use 32 because I've found that trying to run 64 bit windows under fusion is just not the best, I ran into sound card studdering issues and things of the like so I went back to 32 bit where things don't seem to use up so much system resources, and, for me, I really couldn't tell the difference from running 64 or 32 bit under fusion, it just runs it pretty damn fast
Thanks all. I'm trying to avoid spending money on this if I at all can. If fusion
didn't cost 80 dollars, I might be more tempted, but for slightly more than that I
could just get a windows laptop that'll do all I want it to. It might just have to
be something that waits until I can spare money.
Bootcamp works fine if you don't mind a reboot. You would need sited help to
install Windows. If you wanted to boot into windows you'd shut down OSX,
then turn on your computer while holding the key two to the left of the space
bar. When you hear a chime you'd hit left arrow once, then hit enter and
you'd boot into Windows instead of OSX. If you decided you like Windows you
could always make Windows the primary OS the computer boots into, instead
of OSX.
I personally believe that Jaws or whatever your screen reader of choice is works better when it is on a separate partition withBootcamp.
I'm running fusion, I personally like not having to reboot, but if your not looking to spend any money, boot camp with windows 10 would be your best bet.