![]() ![]() An interesting feature that both VMWare Fusion and Parallels have added to their applications is the ability to use the BootCamp partition as a bootable Virtual Machine drive. BootCamp runs AutoCAD and/or Inventor in a very native mode and for most situations you would not know the difference from running in BootCamp vs. ![]() The primary reason for this is that it is a free download from Microsoft and for doing application testing I seldom need the added features that VMWare offers.įirst it is not really applicable to discuss Apple BootCamp as a Virtual Machine, it truly is just a dual boot and the Apple BootCamp install emulates the system Bios and adds windows drivers for the Apple Hardware. On my PC systems I am currently using Microsoft Virtual PC for Virtual Machines to test AutoCAD applications and configurations. My personal testing has been with four different Apple machines which are a Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro and my current system a MacBook Air. Since Apple has changed to Intel processors things have changed with the ability to use an Apple system as your primary or at least as a secondary system for use with AutoCAD and other Windows Applications. To start with I have used Microsoft Virtual PC, VMWare and Parallels on Windows XP systems for testing, but have also expanded this testing to using VMWare Fusion, Parallels and Apple BootCamp on Mac OSX… What i would like to discuss is using a Virtual Machine for testing AutoCAD custom applications in different possible configurations. What I wanted to write about is something that I have been doing for some time now and thought that it may be of interest to others that do AutoCAD programming. However, that is not the nature of this post… The last version of AutoCAD that I am aware of that ran on an Apple was Release 12. I know that that the title to this post seems a bit strange coming from someone that does AutoCAD development. ![]()
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