DCForensics10 running on a Mac via Bootcamp

[Craig Maier]

I just thought that I would document the fact that a DCForensics10 customer is successfully running DCForensics10 on a Mac computer via something called "Bootcamp".

Craig

[sus4chord]

Bootcamp just provides a Mac with the ability to load multiple operating systems on the Mac, and then select which one you want to load at boot-time. So in order to run Windows applications using Bootcamp, you still need a legal copy of Windows, an appropriate amount of disk space to hold both the Mac OS and Windows, and then you just install Windows to a different partition. When you boot and select Windows, you are actually running Windows just as if you were on a PC. This is possible ever since Apple switched to using Intel processors for the Mac.

This is similar to installing Linux on your Windows machine in a multi-boot environment and then selecting which OS you want at boot time.

I suspect you could also run DCForensics10 using VMWare Parallels (which is really VMWare Desktop for the Mac) in a virtual machine, although there are performance hits doing so versus running the native operating system at boot time.

[Craig Maier]

Thanks for the details and clarification. Much appreciated, indeed.

Craig