LowEnd Mac discusses Virtualization technologies other than vmware or parallels… How about opensource Darwine?

Darwine: Mac Wine in New Bottles: “Apple’s move to Intel CPUs opened up a range of ways for Mac users to make use of Windows applications. Apple released Boot Camp, allowing Macs to dual-boot to Windows partitions in addition to Mac OS X. Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, and the free VirtualBox let users run virtualized Windows (or other PC operating systems) at the same time as OS X.

But if all you want to do is run a Windows application or two, do you really need to take the time (and the system resources) to boot to Windows – whether restarting entirely a la Boot Camp, or starting up Windows in a window a la one of the virtualizers?

Depending on the application you want to run, there may be another way.”

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