[X4U] Boot camp on a separate partition?

[Christopher Collins]

Boot Camp will not run without it's own partition on the hard disk.  
Period.

Parallels and Fusion will allow you to access a Boot Camp partition  
and use it as one of your virtual machines. They can also use "virtual  
hard disks".

Virtualbox can only use "virtual hard disks". It cannot use a Boot  
Camp partition. This may have changed in v3. I haven't had time to  
test v3 or Virtualbox yet.

cjc


On 11/07/2009, at 1:02 AM, Craig A. Finseth wrote:

> More to the point, Boot Camp really, REALLY, >>REALLY<< wants to run
> on a partion on the main HD.
>
> I tried other configurations and wound up having to reinstall the core
> OS from scratch.  (It was a new install, so no harm.)
>
> Craig
>
>   Unless you need/want to run games . . . you might want to consider
>   either Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion and run Windows inside
>   Leopard. The speed hit is pretty small with Intel chipped Macs and  
> the
>   virtual machine keeps from having to cross-boot and allows drag/drop
>   from the two environments.
>
>   I've not used Boot Camp; so can't answer your specific  
> question . . .
>   just wanted to make sure you had considered all the options.
>
>
>
>   On Jun 16, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Bob Aldridge wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’m getting a new iMac next week. I want to install Boot Camp with
>> XP.. Are there any advantages to making separate partitions (one for
>> XP by itself and the other for MacOS X) on the main HD or just let
>> Boot Camp make a partition using its process and leave well enough
>> alone.
>>