![]() A lot of disk checking goes on and the bootloader is involved - can be nasty. If your bootcamp partition goes down the road back to where you were is long and fraught. You can also give VM clones to colleagues so you're all working on identical environments. Its harder to keep a clone of a partition. Also, with image files you can keep a working clone of your VM ready to step in if your windows vm goes down. For me the biggest pain was that Parallels VMs from a bootcamp part can't be suspended and resumed quickly and easily as ones running off an image file. Parallels will work with a bootcamp partition but has some drawbacks. Re: VMs vs Bootcam - using Bootcamp is an option if you absolutely have to squeeze the last 1-5% performance out of your box, but otherwise the benefit is minimal. Net enterprise web apps using Visual Studio on a MacPro and also my 13" MBP) and can't imagine working on anything else in any other way :-) ![]() aside from problems arising from limited memory (I'd say 4GB minimum for this kind of thing) I've yet to encounter any issues. I've been using Parallels versions 2/3/4/5 to do exactly this for some years now.
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