Most of AFNI should work well on a virtual machine, except for the SUMA
programs (surface mapping), which are based on OpenGL and hardware
rendering of the surface models.  I don't know whether FSL uses OpenGL.

Note that with a virtual machine, one usually limits the RAM to half of what
is available.  On a laptop, that means the memory limit might make some
processing difficult.  This will apply to any software run on a virtual machine.

Given these 2 limitations, IF you plan to do a lot of processing, then either
the dual boot method or using your mac might be nicer for you.  If you just
want to play around with NIfTI images, using a virtual machine might be
sufficient.

Note that nifti_tool is a good program to inspect modify NIfTI headers.

- rick


Originally posted by Karen Weierstall: