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virtually boot OSX while i'm in Bootcamp?

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pscl

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Hey Guys!

I know this sounds weired. But since my new imac is a gaming beast at win8 bootcamp i was wondering if it is possible to virtualy boot up my osx system.

normally i was booting my bootcamp partition via parallels when im in osx. but it is possible to do it the other way?


greets
 
Actually I'd love to do the same, but alas I'm fairly confident it can't be done. Maybe someday we can get near-native virtualization, although the problem could be completely solved by game devs weaning off of MS frameworks.
 
pscl said:
Hey Guys!

I know this sounds weired. But since my new imac is a gaming beast at win8 bootcamp i was wondering if it is possible to virtualy boot up my osx system.

normally i was booting my bootcamp partition via parallels when im in osx. but it is possible to do it the other way?


greets
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I managed to boot into OS X with VMware Workstation, but that was on an OS X virtual machine on a Windows system.

I think it's possible this way.

Buy VMware Workstation, apply the patch to enable OS X and EFI booting for Workstation, create a new OS X VM and select the Macintosh HD partition as the startup disk if possible.
 
yjchua95 said:
I managed to boot into OS X with VMware Workstation, but that was on an OS X virtual machine on a Windows system.

I think it's possible this way.

Buy VMware Workstation, apply the patch to enable OS X and EFI booting for Workstation, create a new OS X VM and select the Macintosh HD partition as the startup disk if possible.
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thank you, but i know that it is possible to virtually install osx on vmware. but what i wanted to do is BOOT MY NATIVELY INSTALLED OSX virtually while im running bootcamp win8.

Same thing you can do while you are in osx (start windows bootcamp installation virtually with parallels) but just the other way.
 
pscl said:
thank you, but i know that it is possible to virtually install osx on vmware. but what i wanted to do is BOOT MY NATIVELY INSTALLED OSX virtually while im running bootcamp win8.

Same thing you can do while you are in osx (start windows bootcamp installation virtually with parallels) but just the other way.
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That's why I meant.

VMware workstation is for Windows.

Then with Workstation and a patch, you can boot into your OS X partition from Windows.

But in order to access your macintosh HD partition first, you must create a blank OS X virtual machine.

Note that Macintosh HD here means your OS X partition in your internal hard drive.
 
yjchua95 said:
That's why I meant.

VMware workstation is for Windows.

Then with Workstation and a patch, you can boot into your OS X partition from Windows.

But in order to access your macintosh HD partition first, you must create a blank OS X virtual machine.

Note that Macintosh HD here means your OS X partition in your internal hard drive.
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sounds interesting... but i dont want to destroy my osx installation :D
 
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