My current solution: I have a "Data" D:\ drive which is a virtual hard drive (VirtualBox) that mounts with the C: system drive - I synchronise the data directories with shared folders on the mac to keep things tidy. This was with VMWare 3.x 18 months ago or so - but things change, and I hear the performance of both Parallels and VMWare and Virtualbox are much improved in comparison! All GIS data in the virtual drive - 5 seconds.Shared folders MAPPED as drives within XP - 15-20 seconds.Shared folders - 40 seconds to run operations.When testing GIS operations in a not-terribly-complex project (2 DEM rasters, 20-30 simple shapefiles), both calculations and display were affected by the location of the files: you take an enormous performance hit when the VM is accessing files on a shared directory!
That's a great way to keep track of your data, particularly when using something like GISLook to preview rasters and vector data in OSX. The most convenient way to work with your data is to keep it all in a shared folder within your Mac filesystem, so that files are accessible to both.
#Arcgis for mac software
so does Win7 but it's worth taking the time to tweak it (get rid of Aero, replace the default 'find' with 'everything' app, etc lots of advice about that online).Īs far as the windows VM is concerned, it has its own hard drive and the Mac doesn't exist - but the VM software lets you share folders which appear as network shares.Īs far as performance goes, the interface with the file system is, indeed, your biggest issue. As Cooper mentions, XP will feel very snappy indeed.
I still have to resort to ArcGIS in a virtual machine from time to time on my Macbook, and have experimented with performance issues over the years.
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