I'm debating my options for virtual machines so that I don't need to dual boot; does anyone here have any experience with products like Parallels? I'm specifically curious about lag.
Hi Ashley, I have used Storyline on a Mac since day one of the original beta, never had any issues always used it with parallels never dual booted.
I don't think I have experienced any lag I give my VM 4gb (Parallels doesn't recommend giving anymore) and only use it for SL. The only slight problem i have is that I share my desktop between Mac and Pc this means my desktop is treated as a network drive in windows and sometimes SL refuses to publish, I have a folder setup on my C: drive specifically for this which resolves it.
I was in speaking to Apple about something unrelated and he was all "giiiiiiiiirl...you gotta change things up here." so I wanted to consult with you fine folks before making investments :P
Recently got a great new iMac but I'll probably delay moving SL to it until I really need to. I've read here in the past (and good to hear it's still true, Phil) that it works really well.
I run on a Mac with 32GB RAM and allocate 8GB RAM to Windows 7 64 under VMWare's Fusion. Speed is not really an issue; it works. I realize a lot of folks here are using Parallels; I tried it but preferred Fusion. So they're both worth looking at. Good luck!
I prefer VMWare Fusion as well. A few minor differences, just felt like a smoother installation and launch to me. I run Storyline on an older Macbook Air running Windows XP for the smaller footprint. I don't dare try to tackle large projects but it does run pretty snappy for smaller projects.
Yeah - there are tons of options, but I'm thinking it might work best for me to run parallels.
@Phil - Any issues working on larger projects? My projects range, but I don't want to limit myself when it comes to something larger.
I had a bit of a backup debacle last weekend that resulted in me kissing away my weekend to rebuild 3 modules based on outputs, so I have a feeling Time Capsule is going to be my new best friend as my previous methods do not seem to have held up their end of the bargain!
Yeah - I went ahead and purchased Parallels, but I'm holding out on Time Capsule to see how I make out once I reformat my external HD and set up for time machine to be used in conjunction with dropbox (which is what I've been using).
I use a time capsule, I would set it so your parallels file is not backed up, the reasoned logic for this is that if you have one change in the file it will be backed up (I backup my machine every 30 minutes using time machine), my parallels files is 150gb and it has to backup the whole file this means Time machine never stops backing up. there is an option in parallels to not backup in time machine. Once a week I copy the file and drop it into an area that will be backed up. As I only use Windows to run SL and all my files are on dropbox weekly backups are fine for this file. If I don't want to save to dropbox I drop the file on my desktop and because this is shared with my mac it will get backed up.
As far as large projects go, I have had no issues that I wouldn't have had by using a native machine. I have a 1.2gb SL file and a 320 slide slide that is over 750mb with loads of videos.
I have never lost a file in the last year with my time capsule and dropbox combination, doesn't san I haven't had to look for files or restore them, but I have never lost one.
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Hi Ashley, I have used Storyline on a Mac since day one of the original beta, never had any issues always used it with parallels never dual booted.
I don't think I have experienced any lag I give my VM 4gb (Parallels doesn't recommend giving anymore) and only use it for SL. The only slight problem i have is that I share my desktop between Mac and Pc this means my desktop is treated as a network drive in windows and sometimes SL refuses to publish, I have a folder setup on my C: drive specifically for this which resolves it.
FANTASTIC!
I was in speaking to Apple about something unrelated and he was all "giiiiiiiiirl...you gotta change things up here." so I wanted to consult with you fine folks before making investments :P
I think that's my next plan, too, Ashley.
Recently got a great new iMac but I'll probably delay moving SL to it until I really need to. I've read here in the past (and good to hear it's still true, Phil) that it works really well.
I just got a macbook pro and Parrallel. I'm slowly moving all my stuff over to it and it seems pretty straight forward.
@Phil, got any advice on settings or what to watch out for?
I run on a Mac with 32GB RAM and allocate 8GB RAM to Windows 7 64 under VMWare's Fusion. Speed is not really an issue; it works. I realize a lot of folks here are using Parallels; I tried it but preferred Fusion. So they're both worth looking at. Good luck!
I prefer VMWare Fusion as well. A few minor differences, just felt like a smoother installation and launch to me. I run Storyline on an older Macbook Air running Windows XP for the smaller footprint. I don't dare try to tackle large projects but it does run pretty snappy for smaller projects.
Apparently, I'm the only Virtualbox fan around here...
Bought VMWare at around V3 before I found out about Virtualbox. How well does it work?
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Pretty well actually. Although in my case, I run on Windows. But I have managed to run OS X on Virtualbox.
Yeah - there are tons of options, but I'm thinking it might work best for me to run parallels.
@Phil - Any issues working on larger projects? My projects range, but I don't want to limit myself when it comes to something larger.
I had a bit of a backup debacle last weekend that resulted in me kissing away my weekend to rebuild 3 modules based on outputs, so I have a feeling Time Capsule is going to be my new best friend as my previous methods do not seem to have held up their end of the bargain!
Time Capsule is great but I have had fantastic luck with Dropbox.
Yeah - I went ahead and purchased Parallels, but I'm holding out on Time Capsule to see how I make out once I reformat my external HD and set up for time machine to be used in conjunction with dropbox (which is what I've been using).
I use a time capsule, I would set it so your parallels file is not backed up, the reasoned logic for this is that if you have one change in the file it will be backed up (I backup my machine every 30 minutes using time machine), my parallels files is 150gb and it has to backup the whole file this means Time machine never stops backing up. there is an option in parallels to not backup in time machine. Once a week I copy the file and drop it into an area that will be backed up. As I only use Windows to run SL and all my files are on dropbox weekly backups are fine for this file. If I don't want to save to dropbox I drop the file on my desktop and because this is shared with my mac it will get backed up.
Hope this makes sense.
As far as large projects go, I have had no issues that I wouldn't have had by using a native machine. I have a 1.2gb SL file and a 320 slide slide that is over 750mb with loads of videos.
I have never lost a file in the last year with my time capsule and dropbox combination, doesn't san I haven't had to look for files or restore them, but I have never lost one.
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