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Dual booting OSX and W7/8.1/10

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I think I'd like to put OSX on my secondary ssd and then dual boot w7 (eventually w10 probably) and OSX. What would be the best way to go about doing so -- so I can have both running simultaneously (OSX on my left monitor, windows on my center/right monitor) with OSX consuming the fewest resources as possible yet still giving me a usable experience.

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You can't run 2 OS's at the same time on a PC without VM's as far as I know. You basically want your CPU to run 2 OS's at the same time from 2 separate drives at the same time without the use of a VM

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Use a Virtual Machine, but you need about 8GB to run OS X proper

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You can't run 2 OS's at the same time on a PC without VM's as far as I know. You basically want your CPU to run 2 OS's at the same time from 2 separate drives at the same time without the use of a VM

I expect to run them in a VM, I just didn't know if/which are better than others -- I've only used VMWare and that was 8~ years ago. Plus, I wasn't sure how a VM would work when using OSX, since you do need to change some bios settings (settings, which may conflict with windows? --idk).

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i've heard of a way of running OSX in VMware, but it was all quite shady so i didnt really dig into it. its possible, but you're gonna have to do voodoo magic.

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It is doable to run OSX in VMware in Windows. However, it is against Apple Terms to run OSX on anything else than an Apple product (Mac, Macbook, iMac, iThingy).

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Hackintosh? I am pretty sure it would be more stable than a VM. Since OSX does a bunch of stupid authentication to make sure its running on a Apple machine. It will check for the SMBIOS I think its called. Its really shady business. 

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Yeah, there are modified images of OS X that you can get for VMware Player/Workstation. You also need to patch VMware as well to allow OS X to run. I did it before, it wasn't too hard. You will need to find out where to get everything on your own though. 

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As said can do with VM only so that can use dual booting OS and compatible hardware is required in order to use dual OS.

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