Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Joshua Berry <yoberi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr> wrote:
>> > I just wondered if I could access the same 8.4.2 server from the Windows
>> > partition (XP via "Bootcamp") as I do from the Mac partition on my Mac?
>>
>> Assuming both virtual machines (or the virtual machine and the host)
>> are up at the same time, it's more of a networking issue that anything
>> else.  As long as the pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf files have
>> entries allowing outside machines to connect via TCP/IP you should be
>> able to just point your windows partition over to the IP of the Mac
>> partition and be set.
>
> I haven't used Bootcamp for a few years, but I believe that it is not
> platform for running concurrent virtual machines, but rather a method of
> "dual booting" Windows and Mac OS. Meaning, that either one or the other
> would be running at any given point of time.

The impression I was under was that both OSes were active and you just
flipped between the two with a sort of super alt-tab command.