Virtual machines for CRIMPers

Posted by Lucas
Feb 7, 2016 at 03:56 PM

I highly recommend Veertu, the new virtualization software for Mac that’s available on the Mac App Store (free to run Linux, $40 to run Windows). Unlike other virtualization software, it builds directly on OS X’s architecture—- the download is only 13 MB! Moreover, it doesn’t require kernel extensions or special permissions. And it runs Windows snappily.

That being said, it still has a few kinks. In my case, installation of Windows was initially difficult because the cursor didn’t function—- I had to use tab. But once I had installed Windows as well as the “guest add-ons”, everything worked great. The only other issue has been the occasional need to force a restart of Windows after waking my Mac from sleep.

Anyway, I had abandoned using Windows via Parallels (which I own) because it felt too cumbersome, but now I’m happily using Windows outliners again—- including Microsoft Word, of which the Windows version uniquely features heading-based folding in Print Layout View.