Bootcamp is where you can choose to boot the computer into OSX or Windows. A virtual machine is where you boot into OSX, then run a copy of Windows or Linux inside a virtual machine application like Virtual Box, Parallels, or Fusion. The advantage of the latter is that, to the mac, Windows is just another running application, so you can switch into and out of it and keep using your mac apps even as you use Windows. To Windows (or whatever OS is running virtually), though, you are booted into a normal computer. That is, the virtual OS has no clue it is virtual, since the virtual machine application is basically providing a "computer" built of software, tricking the OS into running normally. Sounds, keyboards, displays... everything is provided by the mac hardware, but the virtual OS treats it like its own. I hope that makes some sense - it's pretty late here, so I'm not sure how coherent my message will look in the morning. <smile> On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:19 PM, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > The stuff that lands on my desk sometimes! > Anyway, I know some here run their mac in a virtual environment with another > operating system, Linux perhaps even windows. > I imagine for this to work, you still use all mac hardware do you not? Say > you have a macbook, but you are running the virtual environment with xp. Its > boot camp, or is it something else? > and how do you swing the windows screen reader on the more superior mac > laptop? > Same keyboard of course, but jaws will talk using the mac sound setup? > Correct my assumptions pleas as I may be wrong about how this works for you. > how if you were doing the easier thing then Linux, by running windows xp how > it would come together? > Thanks, > Karen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
