Os x vm fast boot windows#

If Parallels is fast enough for you, it is drastically more convenient than rebooting (it can even make your Windows applications look like they are natively installed in OSX), and the aforementioned setup still doesn't preclude you from booting into Windows from time to time, should you need the extra performance. How heavy duty is the compilation you are doing? I was under the impression that most embedded systems stuff would be pretty light weight, due to memory and storage restrictions, but it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.Д®ither way, as others here have said, you can boot up a boot camp partition from Parallels, so you might want to just set that sucker up, and then try out Parallels (do they offer any kind of trial/do they have a 'return' policy of any kind?). Granted, I do most of my heavy duty development in OSX, but I do some C# stuff in Visual Studio from time to time, and it seems to work just fine. I have a 2014 13' rMBP with an i5 and 8 GB RAM, and Parellels runs beautifully. If you check the task manager now you can see Virtualisation is enabled, and I can complete and run VMвЂ™s in Hyper V.In principle, 8GB is plenty for virtualization, and Parallels seems to be particularly efficient.

Once that is complete the white rEFInd boot manager should boot showing all of the available disks for 1 second and then windows should boot normally.

Optional: Reboot into recovery and run (This is recommended).

Os x vm fast boot download#

Download rEFInd and modify the nf-sample file that comes with the download and modify the following values.

Next reboot into OSX (You can actually do this via windows as well, more on that later).

Boot into a OS X Recovery Environment (I installed OS X onto a USB drive, then held Option during the boot, selected recovery environment).

Os x vm fast boot install#

So here are the steps I took to install it The boot loader was called rEFInd and you can see its Sourceforge page at and a great book about it at I have used alternative boot loaders before (I am looking at you Grub) so I figured it couldnвЂ™t hurt and was worth a go.

Looking for a way to turn it on manually once the operating system was booted вЂ“В NopeДЄfter some time looking into how it all works I found an alternative boot loader that could be used which promised that it could enable the feature under Windows.

Using a non UEFI boot image to see if legacy would enable the feature вЂ“ Nope.

I tried may different things to try and resolve the issue including

I want to use HyperV and not an alternative like Virtual Box because Hyper V is a type 1 hyper visor.

The feature is able to be turned on during the boot process, and under the right circumstances is enabled in Windows (So it isnвЂ™t impossible).

I can not enable the feature in BIOS unless I consider using a custom BIOS Firmware (Which I donвЂ™t want to do).

So next step in my critical thinking is to assess what I know to be true which is So as we can see the Cons to this solution seem to be outweighing any OS X is the best argument.

I own the hardware so for Apple (or anyone for that matter) to tell me it is only enabled under specific circumstances is garbage.

I loose 38 вЂ“ 40 GB of partition in my already small SSD to an operating system that I will rarely use.

I have to boot two operating systems for any cold boot situation (Double boot time, might as well have stuck with spinning rust).

Os x vm fast boot update#

I have to configure, update and maintain two Operating systems (Increased attack surface and potential for attack vectors).OS X is the best and you need nothing else ever! (Source: Fanboi).I mean letsВ stop for a minute and critically think about this. Sometimes I cant get over what seems to be an acceptable solution on the internet. For any cold boot, I would boot into OS X and then use the startup disk facility to warm boot into windows. The general way to fix this issue on the internet was to dual boot with OS X.

(So it is enabled during the boot process)

If I installed OS X, the features were enabled.

Os x vm fast boot mac#

I know from previous experience that this usually means the features needs to be enabled in the BIOS, but that might as well be french on a MAC so what was I to do? I turned to Google to help find the answers and this is generally what I found: So like any good IT person I figured a reboot would fix it, hit the reboot button and checked again and the issue remains.