Dual Boot

[joblack23]

I've got the mac pro with dual boot. What can i use to quickly switch between the two other then VMware fusion?

Thanks in advance.

 

[twiSSt]

A quick gooole search returns a few - Bootcamp - not quick by any means, you have to reboot. Parallels - direct competitior to VMWare and if cost is an issue - Virtual Box

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I don't know how much quicker you are going to get switching between the OS's on your box, were you not happy with VMWare?

Twist

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[spamjim]

Depending on the Windows apps that you need, you might be able to run them via Wine 'directly' in OSX.

winehq.org

 

[tazuk]

I'm pretty happy with VirtualBox - certainly can't beat the price.

Only had the macbook (my first) for 2 weeks but running VirtualBox for a Windows XP virtual machine is pretty painless - toughest thing was setting up shared folders but that only took 30 minutes. I only needed Windows for 2 applications, 1 of which I use once a week for 5 minutes to update my speed camera detector and the other which I use about once a month.

I used to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu - the VirtualBox approach is much easier IMHO.

TazUk

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