Is it possible to have multiple OS installed at the same time?

I am not a fanboy. THe topic was about having two O/S's. Not which was better. And the last time someone called me a boy, was over 35 years ago. If you want to dig about Tiger and Leopard, then you can say, Win 98, ME, 2000, XP, Sever 2003. Time span, damn near 18 months I'd say between. But again, you missed the point. IT was about having 2. Not which is better.
 
Yes, stay on topic please. I'm sure there is a "Which OS is better?" thread already posted. If there isn't, I suggest the interested parties to make one. I have been a dedicated PC and Mac user since the mid 80's and would love to chime in but this is not the thread for it.
 
Pako
Yes, stay on topic please. I'm sure there is a "Which OS is better?" thread already posted. If there isn't, I suggest the interested parties to make one. I have been a dedicated PC and Mac user since the mid 80's and would love to chime in but this is not the thread for it.
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Its not acceptable to dismiss a false claim in this thread?

Popeye
And the latest macs will run vista, via boot camp, maybe it will run xp, but not too sure. I got a G5 and its so sweet. Not like windows, where you have to re boot once a day. 60 days running is no problem.
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Eric.
Its not acceptable to dismiss a false claim in this thread?
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That is correct, that is, when it has to do with a 25 post off topic debate followed by a Moderators warning to stay on topic and move on to another thread if a different topic, say Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs for example. 👍
 
SweetshopUnion
Just use Microsoft VPC for running other OS's. It's extremely easy to use.
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Only if you have a lot of RAM to spare. But that is really only useful if you need to run a particular application.

It doesn't make sense to use Linux within a virtual machine for the sake of using Linux, because you aren't making use of the higher security that Linux offers. I'm not even sure that OS X is allowed to be installed on a virtual machine, I'm thinking it isn't. Not that it won't work, its just the same situation where enforcing the EULA becomes questionable.

We used VirtualPC in a my Operating Systems class to be able to toy with Win2000 and Windows XP. 2000 was nice and quick, but XP was horribly slow on those computers.

So really, a virtual machine would be good to play with an OS to see if you want to install it, or if you were running Linux or OS X and needed to use something that was Windows-native. And for the OS X side of things, both VMWare Fusion and Parallels have some very nice features that let you use apps seamlessly in OS X as if it was a native program.

Wait...I'm not getting paid for this.
 

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