A Windows virtual machine

摘要

Apple's Boot Camp lets you install Windows on your Mac and switch between it and the Mac OS, but you have to restart each time. A more elegant way of installing Windows that lets you run Mac and Windows software at the same time is virtualisation, which creates a virtual machine that runs Windows on your Mac desktop. Virtualisation technology works well on dual-core Intel processors as you can devote one core to running the virtual machine, while the other handles the Mac side of things. One of the easiest virtualisation programs to use is Parallels Desktop, thanks to its 'Coherence' mode, which makes it simple to switch between Mac and Windows programs.