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The Virtualization Alternative |
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Tuesday, 02 May 2006
by Michel Roth
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A nice read: "Boot Camp is a pretty slick piece of software for computer users who are intrigued by Apple hardware and software but can't ditch Windows. And, if you want to run a different operating system partition next to OS X, there's always narf2006's code (note: the two options aren't compatible with each other). Heck, several vendors are even shipping Macs with XP preinstalled! But neither Boot Camp nor narf2006's offering enables you to concurrently interact with multiple operating systems and their applications. To run Windows, you need to completely shut down OS X and reboot. Visa versa, same answer. Concurrency requires O/S virtualization, a particularly attractive option given the Intel 'Yonah' CPU's hardware support for the feature. And at least one vendor, Parallels, is aggressively implementing other-O/S-on-top-of-OS X virtualization (with VMware claiming to have similar ambitions, and a to-date 'no comment' from the Virtual PC team at Microsoft)."
Read the whole article here.
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