[AccessD] Windows on a Mac

[Borge Hansen]

Gold Standard, I'm not sure - but I use VMWare Fusion on a Macbook Pro 16Gb
Ram.
I do all Office app work except for Access on Office 2011 for Mac.
I use Microsoft Remote Desktop to remote into clients' Terminal Server.
I run two Virtual Machines concurrently: A Windows 8.1 with Office 2010 and
a Windows 7 with SQL 2014 Express.
This way I can emulate the Access FE - SQL Backend on the clients'
Cloudserver (TS for Access Frontends and separate server for SQL Db) and
makes it very easy to port an Access Frontend app update version to the
production system on a Terminal Server.
I've had this setup for the past five years and have had no problems with
VMWare Fusion....

/borge

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Darryl Collins <
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au> wrote:

> This has been my (limited) experience too.  Bootcamp is native (and free)
> but Parallels is more useful, flexible and powerful.   Make sure you give
> yourself enough disk space for both OS's when you set it up.
>
> Please don't over weight this comment.  I haven't had much to do with
> Macs,  but the few times I have had to set this up for people Parallels has
> worked well.
>
> Cheers
> Darryl.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Doug Steele
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2016 3:59 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows on a Mac
>
> I use both Parallels and VMWare Fusion.  They work well but Parallels
> would be my choice as it is faster to access files outside the VM. Fusion
> seems to lose the connection to the 'external' file system whenever it
> isn't being accessed, and takes a couple of seconds to get it back.
>
> I used to use Bootcamp but I prefer a VM where I can switch back and forth
> between OSX and Windows.
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What's the current gold standard for running Windows on a Mac?
> >
> >
> >
> > MTIA
> >
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> > Rocky Smolin
> >
> > Beach Access Software
> >
> > 760-683-5777
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> >
> >  <http://www.e-z-mrp.com> www.e-z-mrp.com
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> > Skype: rocky.smolin
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