[Framers] Bootcamp vs. Parallels or VM, WAS: FrameMaker and Salesforce

Wed Mar 9 13:31:46 PST 2016

You do need more RAM for VMs. An easy rule of thumb is 4GB per OS .. 4 
for the Mac, and 4 for each VM. I've got 16GB, and that works great for 
3 OSes.

...scott

On 3/9/16 1:17 PM, John Sgammato wrote:
> Hi Pat,
> I got my MacBook Pro in November 2012.
> First I asked for a Windows machine. That was rejected.
> Then I tried VirtualBox, and that did not work well for a number of reasons
> that I no longer recall.
> (I had plenty of support from well-meaning engineers.)
> Then one of those well-meaning engineers took my Mac home over the weekend
> and when I got it back it was great. He had configured Bootcamp to use
> virtually all the Mac resources and since then it has been a Windows
> machine, first Win7 and now Win10 with TCS 2015.
> I was just talking to our IT guy. I am due for an upgrade, but I told him
> that I don't want it because my system ain't broke, so please don't fix it.
> About 21 months ago, we added two more writers. They got Macs, but set up
> Parallels. Parallels was a resource hog and their systems never ran as well
> as my older Bootcamp one. In December, they switched to Bootcamp, with
> happy results.
> I recommend Bootcamp over Parallels or VirtualBox for our kind of work.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Pat Christenson <
> Pat.Christenson at morningstar.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, John -
>>
>> I've run FrameMaker under both Parallels and VMware Fusion but have only
>> used in on a Windows platform for the last several years. I may soon be in
>> a position to use a Mac again. I'm curious about your preference for
>> Bootcamp (which I've never used). I would also love to hear from other
>> Framers on this topic.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Pat Christenson
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>>
>> John Sgammato wrote:
>>
>> In other news, we are also a Mac house. Over three years of
>> trial-and-error, we have determined that our best setup is Bootcamp on the
>> Mac, not Parallels and not VirtualMachine.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Robyn Chittister <rchittister at vlocity.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anyone use FrameMaker and then integrate that documentation with
>>> Salesforce?
>>>
>>> I'm 1 of 1-1/2 technical writers at a start up that creates cloud apps
>>> for Salesforce. We are currently using Salesforce Knowledge to create
>>> and deliver our documentation. Knowledge is possibly the worst
>>> documentation tool I have ever used. We've been looking at various
>>> single-sourcing solutions, and we're down to MadCap Flare and FrameMaker.
>>>
>>> I'm a FrameMaker user from way back - I started with FM+SGML 5.5 in
>>> 1999. I developed templates and tools for FM+SGML and FM+XML from
>>> 1999-2005. I've used FM 12 in an unstructured environment, and am
>>> happy to see the improvements. I'm not sure how many improvements
>>> there have been in the structured environment, however. I've tried to
>>> contact Adobe, and have gotten a human being to say he'll give my
>>> questions to a solutions specialist to answer. Knowing Adobe, I'm not
>> going to hold my breath.
>>> My questions are:
>>>
>>>     - Is anyone here writing doc for Salesforce or Salesforce apps? If so,
>>>     what tools do you use?
>>>     - Is there a good comparison of the most recent versions of Flare v.
>> FM?
>>>     The only ones I've been able to find are from several years ago.
>>>     - Is anyone here using FM+XML (either v12 or 2015) who could answer
>> some
>>>     specific questions I have about it?
>>>
>>>
>>> We're a Mac house, so I can't just download the trial versions. We
>>> understand that we will need to get me set up with a VM and Windows to
>>> use the software we choose.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>>>
>>> ~Robyn
>>>
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>>>
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