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Hypothetical question

dukebound85

dukebound85

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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 said:
Not without vmWareFusion or Parallels... so some such program.
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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
 
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.
 
vansouza said:
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.
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i know hence why i asked the question lol

there has to be a way to boot both os's natively yet split resources
 
dukebound85 said:
i know hence why i asked the question lol

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