Re: Windows VM on Mac ?

[Ryan Haber <ryan -dot- haber -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I second everything Robert has written.

My team is currently migrating from a cloud platform to our own hosted
approach using Flare 2017 to manage our content. The process is fairly
complicated, but I'm happy to report that setting up Virtual Box, Windows,
and Flare was very easy. There are one or two counterintuitive or
unexpected steps, but those done, the rest is very smooth.

You can drag and drop files between environments as well as set up shared
folders. You can use the full range of hot keys. Flare works fine. It's a
beast of course, so you'll want to be able to give your VM 6+ gigs of RAM.
We're using git because our engineers do, and setting that up was also
easy. If you Google around for discounts, you can find some pretty sharp
discounts on Windows licenses. We got ours for $50 or so, and they seem to
be legal. :)

If you decide to go that route, feel free to drop me a line and I can walk
you through it. Right now, I'm neck deep in this migration, but I should be
able to help after mid-April.

All the best,
Ryan

Ryan Haber
API Docs and Dev Outreach
Zoomdata


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 13:46 Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:

> I've had bad luck with VirtualBox's dynamic virtual disk so I use
> fixed size. Might work better with Windows, I don't know, I use it
> only with Linux.
>
> You probably want to set the virtual Ethernet adapter to bridged, set
> the shared folder to auto-mount, and enable the bidirectional
> clipboard.
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