Virtualize.
If you are like me, wanting to be able to boot Windows 7 and Mac OSX on a Hackintosh, then you will probably want to look into virtualization software. Virtualization software allows users to install an operating system on a virtual drive and run the both the native operating system and the virtualized one simultaneously. For a relativley small fee VMWare Fusion is available for purchase and download. This is one of the most popular software applications for virtualizing operating systems. I have VMware extremely usefull, however there are some draw backs to virtualizing a new machine. If your computer has 2gb of ram or less and only a dual-core processor you will probably experience slow performance on both the Mac OSX and Windows virtualization when running them both simultaneously. The virtualized operating system/machine requires dedicated system resources just like any operating system whould. The propblem with this is that there are only so many resources to go around. In order to run most applications in Windows at a reasonable speed you will need at least 2gb of ram and two processor cores just for the virtualized Windows operating system. You would also problably want to have 2 gb of ram and two processor cores for the Mac OSX side of things, if not more horsepower. While virtualizing using VMware, or similar software applications, is quick, easy and does not require you to restart your computer to switch operatings systems, it lacks the performance of actually booting up with Windows 7 or whatever operating system you would like to virtualize. If your computer is a hackintosh you can simply install Windows 7 on a separate driver or drive parititon using the Chimera Bootloader you probably already have to boot up Mac OSX. Installing a separate operating system using Chimera will be explored in a later post.
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