I’ve been battling with Parallels for some time and have been dealing with a Black Screen of Death (a close relative to its Blue cousin) after installing NT8.

Anyone have experience installing/deploying NT7/8 with these scalable computing services? Does anyone know if AWS supports NT7/8?


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I’ve been battling with Parallels for some time and have been dealing with a Black Screen of Death (a close relative to its Blue cousin) after installing NT8. Anyone have experience installing/deploying NT7/8 with these scalable computing services? Does anyone know if AWS supports NT7/8? Sent from my iPhone using NexusFi mobile app

Were you using RDP? The Black screen of the death bug usually happens in RDP with a slow/bad network link.
I'm not a big fan of AWS: you never know how much you're going to pay at the end of the month, the performance can be good then suddenly very bad, it's not that simple to set up and finally been able to log on, and the network latency to brokers/data feed is not great.

I've been switching back and forth between
- VMware Fusion
- Amazon Workspaces
- Paperspace
- an a physical machine

and I'm back to Fusion.

1. Amazon Workspaces was reliable and surprisingly fast (fully 1Gbit/s network for example). I had 45ms latency to their DC, it was always visually as good as other local plattforms (TT). Their client is much faster than RDP.
But one day, keyboard input didn't work after a Workspaces client update. Then, I realized that AWS support only even talks to you if you have an extra service contract (50$/mth+). No mention of this bug in their forums, so I cancelled.

2. Paperspace is a cheap alternative to Workspaces, now even with a European location (for me). Their client is web based, a local installable also available. Pricing is very competitive, but performance of the local screen is not satisfying.

3. Physical machine works fine of course. But as a Mac user, I never found out how Bill wants Windows folks to backup and snapshot their machines. So, I went back to...

4. VMware Fusion - configured on a i5 system with 32GB RAM with 2 CPUs and 4GB for the client. NT8 plus Jigsaw runs very smoothly. Backup and Snapshots are easy. And Fusion is better then Parallels in one respect: You can say 'uuid.action = "keep"' in the VM's vmx file, and it really does not change the machine's uuid when you move it.
And I get beautiful Retina vision...

Host wise, I started with a 2016 MBP 15" and ended up going back to my late 2014 5k iMac (i5, 32GB) - it's just faster.

Hope that helps.

Peter