Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
Antivirus when running Windows on Mac
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 985405" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Wireless printing from a VM can get tricky. The VM software (Parallels, Fusion, VirtualBox) provides drivers to enable video, sound, printing, CD, etc. It depends on whether or not your particular printer will work with whatever drivers are currently available. You'll need to do some homework on that. Probably best to ask about your particular printer in the Parallels forum.</p><p></p><p>If you choose to use Parallels, you can ignore Boot Camp. No need to run the BC assistant and create a bootable partition for Windows. Parallels will take care of all that for you via its program. Remember, Parallels creates a "Virtual Machine" and emulates through virtualization the functions of Windows including creating a partition, etc. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time Machine will backup everything that's currently on your hard drive if you allow it to. And that includes the virtual machine copy of Windows. You can always exclude the Windows VM from any TM backup if you so desire.</p><p></p><p>From the applications you mentioned above that you would like to run in Windows, all should run well from within a Virtual Machine using Parallels or Fusion, or even the free VirtualBox from Sun. It's only when you need to run graphic intensive applications such as games or CAD that you would need to use a natural run of Windows from Boot Camp.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 985405, member: 46727"] Wireless printing from a VM can get tricky. The VM software (Parallels, Fusion, VirtualBox) provides drivers to enable video, sound, printing, CD, etc. It depends on whether or not your particular printer will work with whatever drivers are currently available. You'll need to do some homework on that. Probably best to ask about your particular printer in the Parallels forum. If you choose to use Parallels, you can ignore Boot Camp. No need to run the BC assistant and create a bootable partition for Windows. Parallels will take care of all that for you via its program. Remember, Parallels creates a "Virtual Machine" and emulates through virtualization the functions of Windows including creating a partition, etc. Time Machine will backup everything that's currently on your hard drive if you allow it to. And that includes the virtual machine copy of Windows. You can always exclude the Windows VM from any TM backup if you so desire. From the applications you mentioned above that you would like to run in Windows, all should run well from within a Virtual Machine using Parallels or Fusion, or even the free VirtualBox from Sun. It's only when you need to run graphic intensive applications such as games or CAD that you would need to use a natural run of Windows from Boot Camp. Regards. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
Antivirus when running Windows on Mac
Top