Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John Gage
Subject Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition
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Msg-id 1310A4FE-041E-43F3-A640-456BBE639B44@numericable.fr
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In response to Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
Responses Re: Running Windows on a Mac partition  (Joshua Berry <yoberi@gmail.com>)
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This response came in as I was mea culpa-ing.

Everything here is correct to the best of my knowledge.

And I am very glad to be warned not to go between the two OS's.

Thank you,

John

> Personally, what I'd do would be create a virtual machine image with
> something like VMWare - something that is supported on both Mac OS X
> and
> on Windows. Put it somewhere both systems can access it - probably the
> Windows NTFS partition. Then, whichever OS you're using, start the
> virtual machine with Pg on it and use that server over the virtual
> network between the VM and the real host.
>
> Alternately, you could just point Pg at a data-dir on storage that
> both
> systems can access, as described earlier. I'd be pretty wary of doing
> this, though.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer


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