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dukebound85
May 5, 2008, 03:16 AM
Say you have a mac pro or even a hackintosh. say you have both vista and leopard installed on seperate hard drives. say you want each to boot up simultaneoulsy each on a seperate screen

is it possible?

i would like to be able to devote 1/2 my computer to each:
as in half my quad core, half my ram, half my vid card, etc

is it possible to do so say with vista and xp as well?


vansouza
May 5, 2008, 03:18 AM
Not without vmWareFusion or Parallels... so some such program.
dukebound85
May 5, 2008, 03:26 AM
Not without vmWareFusion or Parallels... so some such program.

im aware of those. problem is those can not utilize the graphics card 100% for guest os

i would like to be able to play halo2 while also in osx is the jist of it
vansouza
May 5, 2008, 03:35 AM
Then you are going to have to use something like BootCamp to be able to dual boot. But it will be one OS at a time.
dukebound85
May 5, 2008, 03:37 AM
Then you are going to have to use something like BootCamp to be able to dual boot. But it will be one OS at a time.

i know hence why i asked the question lol

there has to be a way to boot both os's natively yet split resources
asme
May 5, 2008, 03:40 AM
i know hence why i asked the question lol

there has to be a way to boot both os's natively yet split resources

No, there is no such way to do that.

If you wanted to do it you'd need to have a motherboard that was designed by Jesus, who was a pretty cool guy when it came to just about everything. Sadly he isn't around anymore so you're pretty much SOL.
dukebound85
May 5, 2008, 03:41 AM
No, there is no such way to do that.

If you wanted to do it you'd need to have a motherboard that was designed by Jesus.

thats a shame lol
MacVault
May 5, 2008, 08:22 AM
VMware ESX Server is the closest thing I can think of to do what you are asking, however, due to Steve Job's ego Mac OS X will not run under ESX Server :mad:
brad.c
May 5, 2008, 08:26 AM
If you wanted to do it you'd need to have a motherboard that was designed by Jesus...


Jesus built my Motherboard? :confused:
Firefly2002
May 5, 2008, 08:52 AM
Jesus built my Motherboard? :confused:

Is that such a surprise? Mexicans can build computers, too!

;)
OrangeSVTguy
May 5, 2008, 09:19 AM
Your only hope is to buy a whole new separate PC. No way to dual boot two different operating systems natively.

Time to buy another MP and just load Vista onto it :D