what vmware should i use for running mac

Can you advise on the best settings for running Windows on Mac.

There are a lot of different paths too, from dual booting your computer (fastest solution, but most complicated) to various virtualization systems that essentially run Windows within MacOS X as if its an app.

The two biggest options in this space are Parallels and VMware Fusion.

My choice The latter, and Ive been happily using it on my Mac systems for Windows and Linux installs for many years.

Easy and darn convenient versus carrying two separate computers.

Once your virtual OS is powered down, you can go to Settings in the VMWare Fusion app and have complete control over the virtual world its presenting the Windows OS.

More cores faster performance, but assign too many and MacOS then starts to bog down.

I like to assign two cores, though you could go up to four without a major issue unless you use lots of processor-intensive apps on the Mac side simultaneously.

VMWare recommends 2GB of RAM but thats pretty paltry for a modern PC configuration so I bump it up just a little bit.

My Mac computer has 16GB of RAM (you can see it on the right edge of the slider) but I greedily want to reserve most of that for Mac applications too.

Finding your Windows system is running slower than youd like Increasing memory is a great place to try fixing the problem.

You can dig through Using VMware Fusion doc if you want to learn more.

First up, click on General to see if you are wasting disk space with its lazy garbage collection algorithm.

Once every few weeks is plenty and will ensure that Fusion doesnt creep and take over your entire Mac hard disk.

Theyve simplified this window in Fusion recently too, which is much appreciated.

Figuring out the technical nuances of a shared IP address and network access can be a bit daunting, to say the least.

Check out my VMware Fusion help pages for more tutorials while youre here.

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