You can make VMWare create an image of your Bootcamp partition. You could access all your programs through Parallels (it's the same concept as VMWare) and when you want to play a game, or do heavy calculating, you can reboot into the same environment but through Bootcamp (thus native) and do what you want to do. So basically, you really need to decide how you will be using your Windows environment!Īs a side note: I don't know about VMWare, but there's also Parallels Desktop, which can run your bootcamp-Windows partition emulated into OSX. This means you can access that one Windows program you'll need during your usual OSX usertime, but heavy programs like games will run poorly due to having massive overhead on everything the Windows environment has to calculate.
You'll be running two operating systems at the same time. VMWare is emulated into your OSX environment. However, since it's running native instead of emulated it will perform a lot better when you're doing CPU/GPU-heavy tasks. If you have to use both set of programs, you'll be switching a lot. Which means you cannot access your OSX programs.
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Really depends on what you want to achieve.īootcamp is a full Windows environment running natively. Games would be few but would include things such as L4D2 and others. I like the idea of running the Windows applications while SL is also running (VMWare solution?) but not sure if this would have problems that bootcamp would not. VMWare to run Windows games and applications. From a MAC newbie running an iMac I7, 8GB, 1TBĬan some of the experts out they give me a suggestion on using Bootcamp vs.