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<blockquote data-quote="Checco" data-source="post: 1578837" data-attributes="member: 222519"><p>Pseu,</p><p></p><p>Get yourself a trial version of Fusion or Parallels. Follow their instructions as to how to install Windows in a VM that runs off your internal SSD. Since you only need to run one program on Win 7, and assuming it doesn't require excessive resources, keep the VM's HDD size modest (min. For 64-bit Windows 7 is 20GB). You can also remove Windows features that you won't be using to reduce your requirement further. Allocate at least 2GB RAM for the VM.</p><p></p><p>This approach has the following benefits:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You don't need to dual-boot. Run OSX and Windows simultaneously.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your OSX partition remains intact.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You're keeping MS happy.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you don't want to continue on this route, just delete the VM and uninstall Fusion or Parallels and it only would've cost you a bit of time.</li> </ul><p></p><p>I have 16GB on both a 2011 21.5" iMac and a 2012 15" MBP and sometimes run up to 3 VMs with no problem at all. I'd say definitely the way to go!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Checco, post: 1578837, member: 222519"] Pseu, Get yourself a trial version of Fusion or Parallels. Follow their instructions as to how to install Windows in a VM that runs off your internal SSD. Since you only need to run one program on Win 7, and assuming it doesn't require excessive resources, keep the VM's HDD size modest (min. For 64-bit Windows 7 is 20GB). You can also remove Windows features that you won't be using to reduce your requirement further. Allocate at least 2GB RAM for the VM. This approach has the following benefits: [LIST] [*]You don't need to dual-boot. Run OSX and Windows simultaneously. [*]Your OSX partition remains intact. [*]You're keeping MS happy. [*]If you don't want to continue on this route, just delete the VM and uninstall Fusion or Parallels and it only would've cost you a bit of time. [/LIST] I have 16GB on both a 2011 21.5" iMac and a 2012 15" MBP and sometimes run up to 3 VMs with no problem at all. I'd say definitely the way to go! [/QUOTE]
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