Running two instances of the OSX?

[detz]

Being a developer I often want to try out the latest stuff but it's come to bite me in the ass a few times so it would be nice to have a test environment where I can try out new stuff while leaving a stable version alone. I understand that Apple does not let you run OSX as a virtual machine** so is there any other way I can do this?

**I guess they allow you to run the server so I tried that but it's really really slow in Fusion.

 

[robbieduncan]

You can install multiple copies and boot to whichever you want at the time. External drives can be very useful for this...

 

[detz]

You can install multiple copies and boot to whichever you want at the time. External drives can be very useful for this...

Well I was hoping I didn't have to restart, I can go the partition route but it's a pain. Unless...can I access the partition through Fusion like you can access a bootcamp partition?

 

[robbieduncan]

Well I was hoping I didn't have to restart, I can go the partition route but it's a pain. Unless...can I access the partition through Fusion like you can access a bootcamp partition?

You can only use Fusion (or Parallels) to run OSX Server. And you already said it was too slow