Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr> 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 more of a networking issue that anything
> else. As long as the pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf files have
> entries allowing outside machines to connect via TCP/IP you should be
> able to just point your windows partition over to the IP of the Mac
> partition and be set.
>

I haven't used Bootcamp for a few years, but I believe that it is not
platform for running concurrent virtual machines, but rather 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.