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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1815239" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>The virtual machine is an image, VB (or any emulator), loads that image and runs the base software as an app in macOS. The emulator then provides the responses to the guest machine for all of the hardware that the guest thinks is there. Configure a network, and macOS will provide, through VB, network connectivity. Configure a hard drive and Ubuntu will 'see' a hard drive in that image and respond accordingly. But the drive is entirely virtual, it only exists in the image.</p><p></p><p>Once the virtual machine is "shut down" the image file is updated with whatever changed in the machine while it was running and then the file is closed. If, and only if, you write a file from Ubuntu into the Mac file space will that file be available to macOS. For example, if you run a word processor in Ubuntu and then, instead of saving that file to the virtual drive controlled by Ubuntu, you decide to save it to the "real" drive of macOS, then when you return to macOS that file will be available to you. But if you saved that file to the virtual drive inside the Ubuntu virtual machine, it is not available to macOS.</p><p></p><p>Hope that makes it clear. The emulation of the hardware is pretty spectacular, at least for Parallels, which is what I use to run WIndows7 for one app I need. </p><p></p><p>Maybe the best way to see what I mean is to go ahead and install VB and then create an Ubuntu guest in VB and experiment with it. If you don't like it, you can always to back to trying to figure out how to dual boot the Mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1815239, member: 396914"] The virtual machine is an image, VB (or any emulator), loads that image and runs the base software as an app in macOS. The emulator then provides the responses to the guest machine for all of the hardware that the guest thinks is there. Configure a network, and macOS will provide, through VB, network connectivity. Configure a hard drive and Ubuntu will 'see' a hard drive in that image and respond accordingly. But the drive is entirely virtual, it only exists in the image. Once the virtual machine is "shut down" the image file is updated with whatever changed in the machine while it was running and then the file is closed. If, and only if, you write a file from Ubuntu into the Mac file space will that file be available to macOS. For example, if you run a word processor in Ubuntu and then, instead of saving that file to the virtual drive controlled by Ubuntu, you decide to save it to the "real" drive of macOS, then when you return to macOS that file will be available to you. But if you saved that file to the virtual drive inside the Ubuntu virtual machine, it is not available to macOS. Hope that makes it clear. The emulation of the hardware is pretty spectacular, at least for Parallels, which is what I use to run WIndows7 for one app I need. Maybe the best way to see what I mean is to go ahead and install VB and then create an Ubuntu guest in VB and experiment with it. If you don't like it, you can always to back to trying to figure out how to dual boot the Mac. [/QUOTE]
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