I run VirtualBox and WM Ware Fusion on my Mac systems when I need to use Windows programs. Windows runs quite well on the VMs. It gives me a huge advantage that I can quickly create a new VM if needed (just copy an old one - I keep template Windows installations for that). I also do not run Anti-Virus on the Windows VMs. Why? Because Windows does not see the internet. I'm a Mac user - I do everything I can there, especially email and internet access. If I need a Windows file I download it through the Mac and simply move it over to the Windows VM. Both VMware and VirtualBox provide very nice facilities for moving the files and data back and forth. If I were to encounter any problems, I simply would roll back the VM to a previous snapshot and keep going. After many years, I have never had to do this due to any malware. but then I am very careful about things like this.
So, if you are careful you don't need AV on Windows VMs. The key word is careful. As for running Mac in a VM, be sure to read the Apple license agreements, then think again what it is you want to do. Apple allows very few versions of its OS to run in VMs - mostly just the server versions. This may be changing with Lion and Mountain Lion, but so far the answer has been no, don't do that. Jack B, W6FB On May 22, 2012, at 2:15 PM, David Gilbert wrote: > > I guess I stand corrected then. I was thinking more of Boot Camp, > which > I've used and I'm pretty sure is always a separate partition. Even > with > Parallels, though, the two OS's don't speak to each other if Parallels > installs as a virtual machine. > > Thanks for the correction es 73, > Dave AB7E > > > > On 5/22/2012 1:06 PM, Stephen Prior wrote: >> That's not exactly true. Certainly, Windows can be installed on a >> separate partition of the hard drive (I do it myself), but Parallels >> is a virtual machine installed in the Mac OS and can even be run as a >> window on the Mac screen like any other Mac application, resized, >> minimised, full screen etc. >> >> 73 Stephen G4SJP >> >> On 22 May 2012 20:33, David Gilbert <xda...@cis-broadband.com >> <mailto:xda...@cis-broadband.com>> wrote: >> >> >> I would heavily discount anything that person told you in the >> future >> because they clearly don't understand how that works. When you >> run >> Windows on a MAC you are doing it in a separate partition of the >> hard >> drive and the Mac partition doesn't interface with it ... >> certainly not >> to the point of being able to police whatever goes on there. >> Whether or >> not you need antivirus software on the Windows partition is >> purely a >> function of what you will be doing there. If it never runs >> anything >> other than trusted software and never talks to the outside world >> (no >> internet access, no incoming files, etc) I doubt you would need >> it ... >> but for that reason, not the one your friend gave you. >> >> 73, >> Dave AB7E >> >> >> >> On 5/22/2012 11:23 AM, EMD wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Recently I have had the need to run windows on my MAC. I'm >> using Parallels >>> to run Windows 7. I have been told that I do not need Anti >> Virus software >>> on the windows side since I already use it on the MAC side. >> Does anyone >>> have any thoughts on this? >>> >>> 73, Ed >>> K3ENV >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> <mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/ >> donate.html >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
