Throughout the 2012 season, 1515 ran its robot on a Macbook Pro through
Parallels. It worked just fine.
The DS software is not particularly taxing on anything - RAM, or CPU, so you are quite safe running it on a virtual machine.
However, I would argue for bootcamp not for the sake of the DS, but rather everything else. You may find using a partition to be a much more rewarding windows experience than using windows on a virtual machine.