Re: bootcamp/macos? other options?

If you want to run Windows natively on your mac, you can use Bootcamp
to boot and install it.

If you want to virtualise Windows or Linux I suggest VMware Fusion.

Lindsay

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Martin Visser
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Voytek,
>
>  I'm not a Mac guy, but I think you will find that Bootcamp doesn't
>  allow you to run Windows on MacOS but rather allows you to boot into
>  Windows installed on a separate partition on your Intel-based Mac - a
>  subtle but important difference. (That is, Bootcamp is akin to GRUB or
>  LILO for Linux).
>
>  I think you will need something like Parallels or Vmware Fusion to run
>  Windows in a virtual machine while running MacOS on your Mac host
>  machine.
>
>  Martin
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >
>  >  I just got asked about bootcamp for mac;
>  >
>  >  as far as I found, it comes included with MacOS 10.5;
>  >  presumedly, if one upgrades to 10.5, they'll get bootcamp;
>  >
>  >  what other options are there for running windoze on macOS?
>  >
>  >  my initial thoughts was, if it comes with MacOS, that's the way to go;
>  >  which is what I told the user
>  >
>  >  suggestions/recomendations welcomed
>  >
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