Coherence mode "for dummies"

[RaoulD]

Hi all guys,

I need to run Windows 8.1 on my new MacBook pro and so I need to choose among Paralles and VMWare.
I use VMWare at work (win to win virtual machines...) and I know it but I heard about this COHERENCE mode that seems quite good for me but I'm not sure to have clearly understood how it works.

Does it runs a normal virtual machine and opens the specific .exe application hiding the windows bar?

I'm asking this because the only reason I need Windows on my Mac is that my girlfriend needs to run an application I developed for her using Visual Studio based on SQLServer. This means that my virtual machine must first start SQLServer (usually it runs as a windows service) and then my application; furthermore my application takes backups of the database and put them on Google Drive disk, so I need also this service working.
Is COHERENCE suitable for me?

Thank you all.

Raoul

PS: Sorry for my English... I hope what I wrote is understandable...

 

[Andrew@Parallels]

Hi RaoulD,
This video should help to understand the concept of Coherence. Video is designed for Parallels Desktop 8, but the concept of Coherence is the same in Parallels Desktop 9 and 10.
Hope it helps!

 

[RaoulD]

Thank you Andrew.

Now it's more clear.

Just another question, I read that I can start the virtual machine directly in coherence mode, this means that I can configure which application must be run at startup (in my case my application obviously...)?

Thank you again.

Raoul

 

[RaoulD]

Forget my previous post...

I downloaded the test version of Parallels 10.

So now I can say "it's clear"!!! From the video I did't understand the management of window applications.

Thank you again for prompt reply!!!

Raoul