Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-31 Thread Craig Ringer
On 31/03/2010 10:27 PM, Joshua Berry wrote: My vote would be to follow Craig Ringer's advice to run the pg server in a virtual machine. I'd choose something like vmware/fusion or if you want license free options, I think they exist that can run hosts on win32 and BSD/MacOS. But if you wanted to

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-31 Thread Joshua Berry
My vote would be to follow Craig Ringer's advice to run the pg server in a virtual machine. I'd choose something like vmware/fusion or if you want license free options, I think they exist that can run hosts on win32 and BSD/MacOS. But if you wanted to avoid dual booting altogether and parallels/fu

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-30 Thread John Gage
This response came in as I was mea culpa-ing. Everything here is correct to the best of my knowledge. And I am very glad to be warned not to go between the two OS's. Thank you, John Personally, what I'd do would be create a virtual machine image with something like VMWare - something that is

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-30 Thread John Gage
Unfortunately, but no unexpectedly, I have been moderately stupid in this question. Using Bootcamp, the OS's are *not* running simultaneously. Hence, the server, which is on the Mac is not running when Win is running. There is the possibility for the Mac to *read* files in Win, but that i

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-30 Thread Craig Ringer
John Gage 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? If I understand correctly, Boot Camp doesn't permit both Mac OS X and Windows to run at the same time, right? You can run one or the

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-30 Thread John Gage
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. In the case of Bootcamp, onl

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Joshua Berry wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, John Gage 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 t

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-30 Thread Joshua Berry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, John Gage 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

Re: [GENERAL] Running Windows on a Mac partition

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, John Gage 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