Another option is Sun’s Virtural Box. We are using that on both Windows and Mac for VM work. The nice part is that it is provided at no cost.
Lastly, I am fond of the CrossOver approach. which removes Windows from the equation and makes the application almost platform agnostic. It patches the call backs to Windows and translates them over to Mac calls and back. If windows says “DrawButton(place,size, color, text) it translates it to the Mac Cocoa / Carbon equivalent. Up side is that there is no Windows OS for viruses to attack in this model, in addition to having a significantly smaller footprint in the system. (not 15GB if Windows hanging around to run Outlook)
Best, Wm. Cerniuk
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On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:28 PM, James Alcasid wrote:
VMware and Parallels both have software to convert desktop PC systems to images that you can use. The FDCC images also come as .VHD so you may have to convert those, this is the federal baseline that most agencies will use. I am only familiar with the VMware conversion tools for this. You should contact your group that creates the enterprise images and go from there. Do you plan on binding these VMs to the AD network or are you just using the environment to run your custom PC applications?
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From: "Jerry L. Blackmon II" <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:09:40 -0500
To: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
Cc: Fed Talk <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Windows on the Mac
No, they use something called Acronis to do their imaging. Not at all familiar with it, and when I looked in the directory where they said the “image” lives, saw nothing recognizable.
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From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:08:27 -0500
To: Blackmon Jerry <email@hidden>
Cc: Fed Talk <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Windows on the Mac
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Jerry L. Blackmon II <email@hidden> wrote:
Folks,
Can someone point me in the direction of any documentation that outlines how to securely configure Windows for operation on a Mac? Specifically in Parallels or VM Ware, though I think we’re going to standardize on Parallels.
Also, if anyone has any tips and tricks they can offer, I’d appreciate it. I don’t have a lot of Mac users, but they have need to occasionally run some software that’s Windows-only, and this will give me the ability to let them access that on their production machines without having to throw a clunky PC into their already limited space.
Do you guys have a standard Windows ISO image that you load your other Windows machines from? Try booting from that inside of Parallels (or whatever).
J
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