I have run Sonar on a bootcamped macbook pro for years and it works perfectly. As it should, given that a bootcamped mac is essentially an expensive, though rather stylish pc! Dare I say it is the only way I like to use a mac
 
Parralels, on the other hand, was for the most part a complete failure for me. You are sharing all system resources between 2 OS's and running bridging drivers that just aren't up to the task of audio production in my experience.
 
Others have claimed in previous theads to gave had limited success with parallels. For stability though, boot camp is definitely the way to go.

Interesting discussion. I just installed Zorin 9 on my computer (not my music rig). Does anyone know of any success running Sonar in Linux? I love Zorin, and I love Sonar. It would be a marriage made in heaven for me.

I tried with wine and failed.. From memory issues with MFC dll's. Apparently some have managed either X2 or X3 (one or the other can't remember ). Maybe would have been better with 32 bit.

I'm running Sonar on a MacPro via Bootcamp...

Excellent performance... If I'm right, when you do this, you are not running a virtual environment, only a virtual system bios which is stored on the motherboard for windows, but stored on the hard drive for a mac... So bootcamp virtualizes the are where this data is stored and feeds it to a full install of Windows...

The only thing I've found a bit tedious but far from earth shattering is that i can't open my optical drives from the keyboard as Macs do... And they hide the button on drive front so i must open the drive from the inspector menu in windows explorer... Not much pain... Its supposed to have been remapped as i set it to do so but it's never worked...

Other than that i often forget I'm on a Mac as I only use it for Windows/Sonar anyway! ;-)

I'm guessing that if you can do editing with a bunch of plugins etc., you can probably do the recording just make sure to use a separate hard drive for the audio... As far as Sonar knows, it has very little system needs to simply stream audiio... I've even managed to do some festival style events running 16tracks to an external USB2 hard drive!

Keni

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BTW... I forgot to mention that I've heard a number of people have issues with running bootcamp as a partition shared with the Mac OS... I use a separate drive for my windows boot drive and a third drive for my audio drive...

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I don't personally do it but know of many who are running Bootcamp successfully in all areas from studio to live recording without problem.