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Boot OS X, Windows, & Linux from Mac

jimtron

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This looks pretty cool:

Can't decide which operating system you want to run on your MacBook? The newest Macs allow you to boot up from Windows or Mac OS X using the included Boot Camp disk-partitioning software. However, with some steps and a little elbow grease, you can add Linux to the mix and get the best of all worlds.
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VMWare WS/Fusion is awesomerer than VirtualBox though!

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Try that in your fancy pants VirtualBox.
 
laca said:
... and it will be a crawl ;)
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Not for me. In fact, it's fairly snappy on both my MacBook Pro and my Win 7 (64-bit) desktop.

Though I hope to eventually get it running on an i7 workstation, so I can test out whether or not the nested paging offers any boost in virtualized performance.

oh, and jsiv: I'll try it tonight. What should be different?
 
GreNME said:
VBox has 3D drivers, though I'm not sure about Aero.
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There's nothing to not be sure about. It's a fact. It applies to all other VM software (Parallels, VPC, etc) as well. VMWare is king.
 
I will use bootcamp to run Win XP from my Mac system, but Linux is really friendly so I can actually put it on an external hard drive and run it from there. It may not run the best, but I have never noticed anything because Linux has a really, really small footprint.
 
fullflavormenthol said:
I will use bootcamp to run Win XP from my Mac system, but Linux is really friendly so I can actually put it on an external hard drive and run it from there. It may not run the best, but I have never noticed anything because Linux has a really, really small footprint.
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I run both Windows XP and Ubuntu with VMWare Fusion from an external FireWire 400 hard drive, with acceptable speeds. Frankly, I don't use them that often to warrant that they gunk up my main hard drive. As long as one don't want to run (graphic-) intensive applications or games, it's fine. I even run Autodesk Inventor like that from time to time to review designs other people have made. I would not want to run it for a full-blown design project like that, however.
 
I use both Parallels and VMware on my Mac. I find that different things work on them. VMware has problems running Microsoft Train Simulator, for example, though I have not root-caused that or tried to fix it because it worked fine in Parallels and so I kept using it there.
 
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