Question about Virtual Machines

[noatonement]

Just a quick question...

Am i able to run a virtual machine on my mac and run Windows in the virtual machine without using bootcamp?

 

[GGJstudios]

Just a quick question...

Am i able to run a virtual machine on my mac and run Windows in the virtual machine without using bootcamp?

Yes, that's the purpose of a VM.

 

[theSeb]

Just a quick question...

Am i able to run a virtual machine on my mac and run Windows in the virtual machine without using bootcamp?

Yes. Virtual box, VMware fusion and parallels are the products you need to look at.

 

[MagicBoy]

Yes. Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion are popular paid for products. The more adventurous can try VirtualBox which is Open Source.

I personally favour Parallels, have been using it since the Beta back in 2006. VMWare offers better support for Unix-type VMs.

 

[noatonement]

Alright thank you very much guys

 

[unixperience]

Well, you got your answer, but a little more info:

both vmware and parallels will allow you to use a bootcamp partition as a virtual machine. Virtualbox (free) doesn't allow this. If you aren't doing anything graphics intensive, or won't be using it often, i'd say try virtualbox, I used it for about 2 years and it works well, not 100% error free, mainly it had USB problems, but other than that it ran fine.

I am now using parallels.... its more polished than VB but definitely has a few issues I don't like