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rsplash40
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 Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:48 am Post subject: do you have to run boot camp? |
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I've been trying to find out without blowing up my current mini install, do you have to run boot camp to run a alternate os?
The size and power consumption of the mini would be a excellent fit in a few spots for me but would need to *gasp* run something other than osx.
It would be awesome in my case if vmware's esxi ran on it natively. |
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ReliantLion
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| All bootcamp is, is a tool to setup your partitions for installing, normally, Windows. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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You definitely don't have to run BootCamp to run an alternate os. In fact, I am answering your question running a Linux distro (openSuse) on VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro. This is a free virtualization program, and there are also paid choices that offer a few extra bells and whistles: VMware Fusion and Parallels desktop. Both of these can be downloaded for free for 30 day evaluations. Any of these will run Windows (various flavours) as well as Linux and I think all will run BSD and Solaris as well.
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