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Posted by Smarty on 02/19/07 18:11
Mike,
One very important discovery I just learned this morning..........
The installation of an optional Parallels Tool from their installer CD adds
a so-called "Shared Folder" capability which does allow Parallels to see
selected internal hard drives / content via normal Windows file sharing. I
have yet to explore and learn how useful and capable this optional software
truly is, but my first impression after installing and using it is that it
overcomes one of my two major objections to Parallels, namely, the
limitation of only having a virtual, small, slow hard disk. The speed /
performance of Parallels is still an issue for video work.
I will have more to report as I learn more, but wanted you and others to
know that this optional software exists and it does appear to work.
Smarty
"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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> Mike,
>
> The reality of the situation is that "bouncing back and forth between the
> PC and the Mac" will require a reboot for each bounce, and this will take
> the result from the Mac to the PC, or from the PC to the Mac via the hard
> drives which are supported in both environments via Bootcamp. The notion
> of using one machine to bounce back and forth without rebooting is what
> appealed so much to me until I subsequently learned (after spending a lot
> of time and money) that there is no way to enjoy a useful simultaneous
> mixed environment with the MacPro.
>
> When it is booted into the Mac Tiger environment, it is a very competent
> Mac machine, and when it is booted into the PC environment it runs well as
> a PC. Just do not expect to do both simultaneously, despite the apparent
> claim / appeal of Parallels, which supposedly allows a mixed simultaneous
> environment, but in video editing does not, since it is a slow, virtual
> environment which utterly lacks the ability to share hard disks as I
> recently stated. Its' only hard disk is a synthetic volume which is
> generated by the virtual Parallels environment and mimics a real hard
> disk, but with huge penalties in size, speed, and format.
>
> I eventually found that running 2 networked machines, a MacPro and a PC
> using the nicely implemented Mac SMB SAMBA networking achieved the true
> ability to "bounce back and forth" and is very fast and very productive.
>
> My original cautionary comment was sent with this very same detail, and in
> a spirit of trying to inform and warn you and other readers of this
> limitation, which is not very obvious at first. Certainly I was fooled,
> and apparently you were apparently as well. I hope this sheds some light
> on the topic, and am sorry that the original message was erroneously
> challenged and confused with an unwarranted attack.
>
> Smarty
>
> "Mike Kujbida" <kujfam@xplornet.com> wrote in message
> news:1171853662.378502.311140@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
>> OK guys, this is getting very confusing. I was under the assumption
>> that
>> Bootcamp (not Parallels) would allow me to do anything I wanted. From
>> what
>> you're saying, it doesn't sound like it.
>>
>> My plan was to get a Mac with 3 (internal) drives.
>> #1 (system drive) to be partitioned with Mac OS and XP Pro. The
>> system
>> would
>> come with FC Express HD. I'd be installing Vegas 7, Photoshop 7 and
>> CorelDraw 11 on the PC side of it, hopefully by using Bootcamp.
>> #2 (video drive) would be formatted for Mac use.
>> #3 (video drive) would be formatted NTFS for PC use.
>> I've got NTFS-formatted externals already (both USB and Firewire
>> 400) that I'd like to continue using.
>> My hope in doing it this way is so that I could bounce files back and
>> forth
>> from the PC sideo to the Mac side and vice-versa.
>>
>> Is this going to work like I had hoped or am I dreaming?
>> If I'm dreaming, then I'l l go with plan B (quad core PC).
>> Prices are comparable either way I go but I had kinda hoped to start
>> getting
>> into the Mac side of things.
>>
>> Mike
>> p.s. irrelevant material snipped below
>>
>>
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