So VirtualBox allows you to feel like you are switching your OS without
rebooting, correct?
A user can, for example, fire up a Mac and then if they want to launch a
Windows environment they can do so with a double-click, yes?
Thanks all for your thoughts on this, it is helpful...



On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The issue at public terminals is being able to switch between operating
> systems with out having to reboot. To my knowledge refit nor boot camp
> offers this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cornel Darden Jr.
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> > On Aug 12, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Francis Kayiwa <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:57:21AM -0400, Nate Hill wrote:
> >> Is anyone on the list using mac computers and bootcamp or some other
> >> partition to offer public access to either a mac or windows environment
> for
> >> their users?  This seems like ti could be a pretty cool option to
> present
> >> folks with.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on the matter?  I'm trying to figure out what to replace
> our
> >> public computers with here in Chattanooga.  Obviously I want them to be
> >> both inexpensive and awesome.
> >
> > I forgot to mention ReFit [0] (now defunct but should still work) and/or
> ReFind which is recommended at their Website.
> >
> > This will allow a user to select which OS to boot after POST.
> >
> > ./fxk
> >
> > [0] http://refit.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Nate Hill
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> >
> > --
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>



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