No more emulation, same platform. Plus VMWare doesn't reserve all of the physical memory, it shrinks and grows as needed up to the maximum allocated (but you can prevent VM memory from getting swapped). What is the stability of running Windows in with OS X? As far as file transfers, it's pretty much transparent, you just share out folders and move your files around as you normally would.
Sorry, the "ick factor" of putting Windows into OS X is just too up there for me. I'd prefer to have a nice wall between the two.
Also, from what I've been reading, there's a good possiblity Vista will run on a Mac natively. Apparently the reason XP won't is because of a quick boot program built into the new chips Intel is furnishing. XP isn't designed to run on them, but Vista will. With Apple recently passing Dell in stock value, an influx of former PC users wanting to be able to use both platforms could turn Apple into a significant player in the PC end, also.
Which includes the memory needed to run the Operating system you are running in the virtual box, with wine its memory on demand for *only* the application you want to run.
What is the stability of running Windows in with OS X?
Thats the point, with wine you *dont have to* run windows.
As far as file transfers, it's pretty much transparent, you just share out folders and move your files around as you normally would.
So im working on my document in MS word in vmware I have to save it to a specific share (or just share the entire drive) then pull it over to the OSX operating system to mail it? And what happens when you upgrade OSX and suddenly SMB is not quite working like it used to (as happened to many people going to tiger)
Sorry, the "ick factor" of putting Windows into OS X is just too up there for me.
Wine is *not* windows, is more of an API library..