On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:08:51PM -0400, Nate Hill wrote:
> 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...

One is an Apple and the other is a Pear ;-). When you use Bootcamp you are taking full advantage of the hardware upon which it runs. You only have to partition up a portion of your drive to run this. When you use Parallel's, VirtualBox et., al., you are emulate the behavior (you pay a *slight* penalty) of a *usually* x86 based PC. So the emulation software depends on the host OS and some serious OS voodoo to run while bootcamp needs Refit or Refind after POST to be called on to run natively. 

I would strongly recommend Bootcamp for publicly managed computing.

regards,
./fxk

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> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. <[log in to unmask]
> > wrote:
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> > 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.
> > MSLIS
> > Librarian
> > Kennedy-King College
> > City Colleges of Chicago
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> > Cell 708-705-2945
> >
> > > 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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> > >> http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/
> > >> http://www.natehill.net
> > >
> > > --
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