After yet another crapout on my desktop I'm planning to give up and make Linux my primary OS, however, so much software is still windows-only that I need some flexibility...
I've been running windows as a VM on my mac for a while now and it's working acceptably, however I know there is software (specifically graphics/video/games) that will suffer a performance hit or not run at all under a VM...
But, for the software that I use the most, I'd like to be able to pop it up under linux inside a VM
I know you can set VirtualBox (and other VMs) to use a raw disc, but my experience with my mac is that if it's installed in VM, it won't boot as a guest OS, and if installed as a guest OS, it won't boot as a VM (due to "hardware changes")
So, is there a way to set up windows so it will run both as a VM (with less ram/CPU) and as a dual-boot (will full ram/CPU) as needed?
I've been running windows as a VM on my mac for a while now and it's working acceptably, however I know there is software (specifically graphics/video/games) that will suffer a performance hit or not run at all under a VM...
But, for the software that I use the most, I'd like to be able to pop it up under linux inside a VM
I know you can set VirtualBox (and other VMs) to use a raw disc, but my experience with my mac is that if it's installed in VM, it won't boot as a guest OS, and if installed as a guest OS, it won't boot as a VM (due to "hardware changes")
So, is there a way to set up windows so it will run both as a VM (with less ram/CPU) and as a dual-boot (will full ram/CPU) as needed?