
- Boot camp on mac vs virtual box install#
- Boot camp on mac vs virtual box upgrade#
- Boot camp on mac vs virtual box free#
Boot camp on mac vs virtual box free#
If you're planning anything 3D like games you're going to want bootcamp for sure.īootcamp is free and virtualbox is a free vm host so you don't have to be stuck with one or the other.
Boot camp on mac vs virtual box install#
If you're planning to install the windows version of office since the OS X version is so weird you're better off with virtualization. If you're planning to do something intense through windows like video/photo editing you'll be better off with bootcamp. Most large corporate virtual farms (which use the exact same technology under the hood) use network storage like a SAN to help reduce the issue. As pqweh points out, the hit is greater for disk reads and writes. The ones apple chooses tend to fall in the low end of that category. It usually comes with a 3-8% overhead on CPU usage, depending on the specific processor. Paravirtualization is the technique used by parallels, vmware and virtualbox. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc.

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Boot camp on mac vs virtual box upgrade#
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