Most type 2 hypervisors are going to be roughly the same in “size” however, I am looking into xhyve which is a very lightweight hypervisor based on FreeBSD’s bhyve hypervisor.īoot Camp is going to be the largest in terms of size because it’s quite literally a full Widows installation on “bare metal”. Some applications don’t function well in Wine so this is the next best thing. Virtualization allows you to customize the machine itself and make it as small as possible (i.e. This is the next level up where you have a full blown operating system. In terms of size, there’s nothing smaller since you’re not installing a full Windows install - there’s no Windows environment - just the application. The Wine acronym actually stood for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”. Wine is a “compatability layer” that allows you to run Windows apps on a POSIX compliant operating system (macOS, BSD, Linux, etc). Boot Camp which helps you run windows on the Mac hardware directly without macOS running at the same time.Virtualizaton ( VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, Parallels).(It’s unclear this will be updated to run well on Catalina but Wine does well on Mojave and below) In order of “size” your options are as follows:
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