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                            | Closed | Case # | 10030 |  | Affiliated Job: | BaBaDou DOT Com |   |  
                            | Opened: | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |  | Closed: | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |  
                            | Total Hit Count: | 38483 |  | Last Hit: | Friday, October 31, 2025 7:15:04 PM |  
                            | Unique Hit Count: | 9612 |  | Last Unique Hit: | Friday, October 31, 2025 7:15:04 PM |  
                            | Case Type(s): | Helpdesk, Server, Network |  |  
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                            | Case Notes(s): | All cases are posted for review purposes only.  Any implementations should be performed at your own risk. |  |  
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                    | I own a MacBook Pro, which for hardware, is a fantastic piece of equipment.  I cannot say I am a fan of OSX however.  So I will primarily run Windows 7 through a boot camp session.  I do like the iTunes and the features offered with iPhoto; therefore, I will sync my iPhone on the OSX side.  So in my research, I wanted a way to boot my OSX partition in a VM while in Windows 7 - connect it to a USB interface connecting my iPhone so I could keep it synced through this VM session. 
 Parallel desktops offers the ability to boot a separate partition (rather than a virtual hard disk file) in a VM on the Mac side; therefore, I wanted to do the same on the windows side - booting my OSX physical partition within a VM.  Booting Vista or Windows 7 in a VM on the Mac side is far too cumbersome and slow, I have found doing the reverse (OSX in a VM) offers much better performance, I believe since OSX is a Linux operating system.
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                    | Total Action(s): 2 |  
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                            | Action # | Recorded Date | Type | Hit(s) | User | Expand Details |  
                            | 10115 | 4/21/2010 9:56:13 AM | Helpdesk | 4391 | contact@danieljchu.com | OSX in a VM
There is a VM hardware configuration already constructe  More ... |  
                            | 10116 | 4/21/2010 9:55:13 AM | Helpdesk | 4114 | contact@danieljchu.com | My thoughts of Apple vrs Microsoft
In my opinion the difference b  More ... |  |  
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                    | This was more of an endeavor to see how it worked rather than using it frequently - because of the interruption in Windows boot I have been careful how often I do it; however, I only experienced that once - the first time.  Also like I mentioned, the goal was to sync my phone in the OS and it is a little finicky so I find it is more trouble to me then just physically booting up the Mac OS.  But it does work and performance wise, much better then Windows in a VM under Mac OSX. |  
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