Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition

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/fusion/whatever can run you win32 apps well enough, I'd run the
server on the Mac side and let the win apps connect to it via the virtual
network adapters. This is how I've run things on my Mac with decent results.

HTH,
-Joshua

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:36 AM, John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr> wrote:

> 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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