Running Multiple OSes on Macs?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 7, 2002 @09:54AM from the we-don't-usually-get-many-Mac-questions-around-here dept.

raist_online asks: "My boss has just received a new iBook and asked me to sort out a multi-OS install. I'll admit to being a PC hardware person primarily. If it was a PC-based machine I'd install Linux as a base system, then put Executor on for Mac emulation and VMWare for other PC hosted OS's, but I'm sure there must be a better way to handle the Linux / Mac thing with OSX around (I'm just not sure what that is) and I know that VMWare only runs on PC processors (Intel and Athlons). So, what do you suggest? Yellow Dog or Mandrake Linux? OSX or Executor or what? Is there a virtual PC I can use? For our research, the more operating systems we can get onto this one machine, the better!"

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When did Slashdot become USENET? by SkywalkerOS8 · 2002-01-08 08:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This is the kind of question I'd expect to see while browsing through comp.mac.beginner or similar. You really need to learn how to search for your answers or you aren't going to be help to anyone. If you had gone to any Mac-related site or even done a Google search on a term you used, "virtual pc" you would have found that Connectix makes an x86 emulator for Mac OS X called (drumroll please) "Virtual PC"!