I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for Mac for nearly 2 months now as my day to day virtualization platform for SharePoint development, having shifted over to Parallels from VMWare Fusion 4, I have to say I’m very happy with the experience and the pro’s I outlined in a previous post have all continued to be [...]
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Tag Archives: Virtualization
VMWare Fusion 4 for Mac and Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Smackdown
December 7, 2011
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Let me begin by saying that I have been, and probably will continue to be a firm fan of VMWare Fusion for Mac. I’ve used it every day for the last 4 years right from version 2.0.1, for developing on the Microsoft platform, and most especially with SharePoint. It has been rock solid, reliable and [...]
Read moreConfiguring VMWare Fusion NAT on Mac OS X
August 25, 2010
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Describes how to change the NAT configuration for VMWare Fusion. http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2010/03/01/vmware-fusion-nat/
Read moreMigrating Virtual Machines from Microsoft Hyper-V (VHD) to VMWare
August 20, 2010
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After working with SharePoint for any length of time, virtualization will soon become a way of life. Across Mac and Window environments there are a number of virtualization platforms available to you; VMWare Workstation for Windows VMWare Fusion for Mac VMWare Server platforms (ESX etc) Microsoft Hyper-V Microsoft Virtual PC Parallels for Mac Sun VirtualBox All [...]
Read moreMy MOSS/SharePoint Development VM Environment
March 10, 2009
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Here’s my MOSS development VM environment; VMWare Server 2.0 / VMWare Fusion / VMWare Workstation (installed on local machine) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 Daemon Tools IE7 .NET 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 Office 2007 (with InfoPath) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2008 Extensions [...]
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