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Screen sharing - MBP to iMac

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Mar 17, 2012
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I currently use a Windows virtual machine with VMware on my Macbook to connect to my employer and work from home. I'm looking to buy a M1 iMac, but I realize that I won't be able to use VMware on that.

Aside from purchasing Parallels and trying to run a Windows vm that way, I was thinking that screen sharing from the Macbook to the iMac might be a good idea.

The two Macs would be beside each other the whole time, so I won't need remote access. Would the built in macOS screen sharing be good enough to use all day, or would I be better off with an app like Jump or Screens? I would definitely want to be able to take advantage of the additional screen size of the iMac.

My other option is to run Microsoft Remote Desktop on my main machine, but I don't like the VPN program that my employer uses and I would rather keep my work and personal things separate.

Any info or advice would be appreciated
 
If you can get screen sharing working from your new M1 iMac to your MacBook running Windows vm I don't see any reason why it could not be a viable all-day solution, the other benefit being able to share mouse and keyboard.

I don't run Windows but I do run a Mac mini 2018 (intel) 'headless' using screen sharing from my rMBP. Works perfectly fine, although I wouldn't want to watch movies over it.

Hard to say for sure without testing. Hopefully someone here has a use case more similar to yours and can chime in.
 
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hp. said:
The two Macs would be beside each other the whole time, so I won't need remote access. Would the built in macOS screen sharing be good enough to use all day, or would I be better off with an app like Jump or Screens? I would definitely want to be able to take advantage of the additional screen size of the iMac.
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If you can turn on Microsoft Remote Desktop inside the virtual machine, you'd get the best performance by turning that on, then connecting directly to the VM with the Microsoft Remote Desktop client.
 
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That's a good idea, I didn't think of that!

Thanks
 
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