Re: bootcamp/macos? other options?

<quote who="Lindsay Holmwood">

> 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.

Or try the new, Free, kid-on-the-block-just-bought-by-Sun:
http://www.virtualbox.org. I'm using it to run Windows, Ubuntu and Solaris
happily. For Windows it supplies a similar 'window-less' mode to VMWare Fusion's.

J.

> 
> 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
> >  >
> >  >  --
> >  >  Voytek
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> >
> >  Martin Visser
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