Want to have two MacOSs running at same time. Possible?

[PlainviewX]

Getting one of the new MacbookPros next week and it will be a personal and work computer. I'm buying it. Since it will be used for work as well, company requires a VPN. I'm assuming with two MacOS's running at the same time I can have a VPN on one os and have the other, personal, with no VPN. I'm trying to avoid having to turn on and off a VPN when I take breaks and scour the intarwebz.

 

[Fishrrman]

I wouldn't mix "work" and "personal".
(unless you are your own "employer")

Sounds like you really need TWO Macs...

 

[CWallace]

Well you can run macOS in a VM under macOS. I would guess you need to have the VPN running on the VM as if it was running on the "main" OS then the VM's traffic would be going over it.

 

[Krevnik]

I guess my question would be, why isn’t the company providing a work laptop, or why isn’t it adequate for work? I’m not really a fan of spending my money to make my work faster, when the company should be providing the resources to do my job.

I have a “KVM” for work from home with two laptops hooked up. My personal laptop, and the laptop my employer provided.

 

[iHorseHead]

Virtual Machine.

 

[leman]

Yes you can. You simply install a second OS. But of course, you have to reboot Toggling VPN on and off is probably better…

 

[PlainviewX]

I guess my question would be, why isn’t the company providing a work laptop, or why isn’t it adequate for work? I’m not really a fan of spending my money to make my work faster, when the company should be providing the resources to do my job.

I have a “KVM” for work from home with two laptops hooked up. My personal laptop, and the laptop my employer provided.

My iMac is due for an update, but they want me to switch to PC, but I do all creative stuff on the Mac and have zero interest in doing any creative work on the PC.

 

[Fishrrman]

OP wrote:
"My iMac is due for an update, but they want me to switch to PC, but I do all creative stuff on the Mac and have zero interest in doing any creative work on the PC."

Keep the iMac as your personal, "creative" computer platform.

Have your employer buy you a Windows desktop or laptop.

That solves the problem...

 

[Gnattu]

My iMac is due for an update, but they want me to switch to PC, but I do all creative stuff on the Mac and have zero interest in doing any creative work on the PC.

I have a PC workstation provided by company in my office, but I use my own Mac Laptop for most of the work (we allow the usage of personal devices for work). That PC is a "just in case" device

 

[haralds]

If it's an M1. Parallels supports Monterey on Monterey.

 

[Significant1]

You can also look into creating a new user and switch between them. but VPN might work above user level.

 

[iHorseHead]

I have a PC workstation provided by company in my office, but I use my own Mac Laptop for most of the work (we allow the usage of personal devices for work). That PC is a "just in case" device

So do I. I don't like Windows PC that much, but there's no way I'll even sign in to Teams etc on my personal MacBook and only use work laptop for work. That's what it's for.
Or the OP could use TeamViewer and connect to his work laptop somehow.

 

[8CoreWhore]

Look into partitioning the SSD and dual booting. Not sure if Apple Silicon allows this.....

 

[leman]

Not sure if Apple Silicon allows this.....

Of course it allows it. You can boot whatever you want on it as long as it follows Apple‘s layout. Linux people are working in a kernel than can natively boot on Apple Silicon.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Since it will be used for work as well, company requires a VPN.

Please explain how this currently works (where you are, how you connect to this VPN).

 

[PlainviewX]

Please explain how this currently works (where you are, how you connect to this VPN).

No VPN currently. Company was acquired a couple months ago and we're transitioning now.

 

[PlainviewX]

With the dialogue in this thread, I'll probably keep the computers separate. Been researching KVM switches and all of them are wired. Just need to switch keyboard and mouse. In the research found the following that will allow me to stay wireless, and use one keyboard and mouse for the two computers.

Please let me know if I'm missing something.

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