>> > > You can dual boot Windows and Linux on a Wintel machine. You can't > boot Mac OS on anything but an Apple computer.
Untrue, but you might be breaking Apple's EULA (if EULA's are really legal, I don't think anyone has decided), and the hardware spec needs to be very close to the original. > > A virtual machine isn't dual booting, as you know. On a Windows > computer if you want to run Linux in a virtual machine, you can use > VMware in its various permutations, VirtualBox, and Parallels (I > think--it did have a Windows version but I don't know if development > has continued). You may be able to get a Linux OS into Microsoft's > free Virtual PC, but it doesn't work well. Better to use Virtual Box > or VMware. > > Under Linux you can run VirtualPC and VMware, possibly a couple of > others that are obscure. I think there was talk of Parallels for > VirtualBox too... > Craig