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[danny_w]

Since VPC for Windows uses virtualization to emulate another pc, would it be possible to run XP native on the MB/MBP/iMac and then run OS X inside of VPC? If so, for those needing native Windows support, this would allow them to run WinXP native and OS X virtual without dual booting. If it works, it is the only solution so far to allow both OS's to run at the same time but have XP native. Or is the emulation not good enough to run OS X?

 

[Makosuke]

danny_w: I'm 99% certain that won't work. OSX uses EFI and does a lot of checks to make sure it's running on supported hardware, checks that are, I'd guess, not going to pass in a virtual machine. XP is already being sort of finnessed to run on Mac hardware with EFI, so I'm very skeptical MS has support for OSX in VPC anyway.