Teach me about bootcamp

wesley

wesley

wesley

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hi guys

i'll admit that i dont own a mac computer, i'm wondered what is bootcamp exactly?

is it a dual-boot with xp and OSX or running XP with virtualization like vmware within OSX?

thanks
 
It's a proper dual boot, once you've installed Windows on your Boot Camp partition you can boot into it and run it natively. It does all the drivers and so on for you, it's good stuff :)
 
Bootcamp allows dual-booting. OS X and XP/Vista. Linux too I think.

Parallels and VMWare Fusion are the virtual-running software you talk about. I use the latter and it can run a virtualization of the Bootcamp partition, which is handy. Not sure if Parallels has added this feature yet.
 
thanks, well i was thinking of running linux distro natively (same time as XP) without dual-booting method?

is it possible?
 
Not really sure what you're asking there.

Bootcamp creates a partition on your hard drive and allows you to install Windows into it. You then reboot your Mac, it doesn't load OS X at all but boots straight into this new partition and loads Windows natively. It's good, and it allows Windows full access to the hardware so there's no emulation like VMWare. As an example, my bootcamped Vista x64 gives me a flat performance score of 5.9 over everything which I doubt it would do via VMWare.

You can run a VM within OS X with Linux in it, you can bootcamp to Windows and run a VM within Windowx with Linux in it but I don't believe you can bootcamp to Linux.

Does that help?
 
You can't run anything natively without dual-booting. Dual booting is the native option.

Virtualisation software such as Parallels and VMWare Fusion allows near-native performance but it's not as good obviously. (That's not to say it's bad)
 
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