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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 970631" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Boot Camp facilitates the installation of Windows directly onto your Mac hardware. Since the Mac is really just an x86 machine beneath the surface, all Boot Camp does is divide your hard drive into two partitions (one for OS X and one for Windows) and kick off the install. Once it's done, Boot Camp also provides drivers for Mac-specific keyboards, mice and the basic drivers for your system.</p><p></p><p>When you install either VMWare or Parallels, they should automatically detect the presence of that Boot Camp partition. If you double click on it, VMWare/Parallels will attach the VM to that partition instead of using a hard disk file and boot the Boot Camp partition as a VM.</p><p></p><p>The pros? You can access your Boot Camp installation while still running OS X and also boot natively into Windows should you want to run a game.</p><p></p><p>The cons? You'll need to enter your OS X password every time you go to start the Boot Camp VM. Additionally, quick suspend/wake up don't work nearly as well and the partition size is static. And of course, Windows Product Activation can be flakey since as far as Windows is concerned, you've got your copy installed on more than one machine. The VMWare/Parallels Tools package does a decent job of controlling this, but it can be flakey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 970631, member: 24098"] Boot Camp facilitates the installation of Windows directly onto your Mac hardware. Since the Mac is really just an x86 machine beneath the surface, all Boot Camp does is divide your hard drive into two partitions (one for OS X and one for Windows) and kick off the install. Once it's done, Boot Camp also provides drivers for Mac-specific keyboards, mice and the basic drivers for your system. When you install either VMWare or Parallels, they should automatically detect the presence of that Boot Camp partition. If you double click on it, VMWare/Parallels will attach the VM to that partition instead of using a hard disk file and boot the Boot Camp partition as a VM. The pros? You can access your Boot Camp installation while still running OS X and also boot natively into Windows should you want to run a game. The cons? You'll need to enter your OS X password every time you go to start the Boot Camp VM. Additionally, quick suspend/wake up don't work nearly as well and the partition size is static. And of course, Windows Product Activation can be flakey since as far as Windows is concerned, you've got your copy installed on more than one machine. The VMWare/Parallels Tools package does a decent job of controlling this, but it can be flakey. [/QUOTE]
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