Any Mac Parallels people out there ?
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a. I have a Sony Vaio Notebook with a nearly full 256GB SSD drive, 8GB Ram - its seems like its quick to overheat and shuts itself down frequently, especially if there's a lot of network traffic b. I have a MacBook Pro, 15", 500GB SSD c. I cant afford to purchase a new system (Windows or Mac) AND I'd like to migrate the 'content' off the Sony Vaio My plan/thoughts goes something like this 1. Upgrade the SSD in the Macbook Pro to 2TB 2. Install Mac Parallels on the MacBook Pro 3. Import the Sony Vaio as a VM onto the MacBook Pro (yeah, its going to be a mutha of a VM) 4. If the 'Vaio VM' is usable, good, if not, continue 5. Create a new Windows 7 VM on the MacBook under Parallels (maybe on an external drive), Install VS 2015 Onto it (the Sony Vaio only has VS2010 on it) If I can get past step (3), my big worry is if Parallels can actually handle a VM that size Any thoughts ? or do I download the 14 day trial of Parallels and 'jfgowi' (just freaken get on with it)
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a. I have a Sony Vaio Notebook with a nearly full 256GB SSD drive, 8GB Ram - its seems like its quick to overheat and shuts itself down frequently, especially if there's a lot of network traffic b. I have a MacBook Pro, 15", 500GB SSD c. I cant afford to purchase a new system (Windows or Mac) AND I'd like to migrate the 'content' off the Sony Vaio My plan/thoughts goes something like this 1. Upgrade the SSD in the Macbook Pro to 2TB 2. Install Mac Parallels on the MacBook Pro 3. Import the Sony Vaio as a VM onto the MacBook Pro (yeah, its going to be a mutha of a VM) 4. If the 'Vaio VM' is usable, good, if not, continue 5. Create a new Windows 7 VM on the MacBook under Parallels (maybe on an external drive), Install VS 2015 Onto it (the Sony Vaio only has VS2010 on it) If I can get past step (3), my big worry is if Parallels can actually handle a VM that size Any thoughts ? or do I download the 14 day trial of Parallels and 'jfgowi' (just freaken get on with it)
I don't have a Mac, but a quick Google shows a lot of results for using large VM images. Most VM software can support VMs of >= 1TB, so I don't think it will be a problem.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I don't have a Mac, but a quick Google shows a lot of results for using large VM images. Most VM software can support VMs of >= 1TB, so I don't think it will be a problem.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
cheers - Im on pain meds for a back issue at the moment, its affecting my google-fu :laugh:
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cheers - Im on pain meds for a back issue at the moment, its affecting my google-fu :laugh:
I hope you feel better soon! One of my friends has a Hyper-V VM with a 64 TB drive and it works fine (he is using a RAID system to store it). I don't know what he has on it, but I do know it is about half full.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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a. I have a Sony Vaio Notebook with a nearly full 256GB SSD drive, 8GB Ram - its seems like its quick to overheat and shuts itself down frequently, especially if there's a lot of network traffic b. I have a MacBook Pro, 15", 500GB SSD c. I cant afford to purchase a new system (Windows or Mac) AND I'd like to migrate the 'content' off the Sony Vaio My plan/thoughts goes something like this 1. Upgrade the SSD in the Macbook Pro to 2TB 2. Install Mac Parallels on the MacBook Pro 3. Import the Sony Vaio as a VM onto the MacBook Pro (yeah, its going to be a mutha of a VM) 4. If the 'Vaio VM' is usable, good, if not, continue 5. Create a new Windows 7 VM on the MacBook under Parallels (maybe on an external drive), Install VS 2015 Onto it (the Sony Vaio only has VS2010 on it) If I can get past step (3), my big worry is if Parallels can actually handle a VM that size Any thoughts ? or do I download the 14 day trial of Parallels and 'jfgowi' (just freaken get on with it)
I don't do Mac, but a previous coworker swore by Parallels. He had a Mac with Ubuntu and Windows VMs, that's how he did all his work.