Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition

From: John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition
Date: 2010-03-31 05:36:21
Message-ID: 1310A4FE-041E-43F3-A640-456BBE639B44@numericable.fr
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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 supported on both Mac OS X
> and
> on Windows. Put it somewhere both systems can access it - probably the
> Windows NTFS partition. Then, whichever OS you're using, start the
> virtual machine with Pg on it and use that server over the virtual
> network between the VM and the real host.
>
> Alternately, you could just point Pg at a data-dir on storage that
> both
> systems can access, as described earlier. I'd be pretty wary of doing
> this, though.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer

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