multiple operating systems

[Juan Bofill]

Hi

Can it be done from a Big Sur install?

Juan

> On Sep 20, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:
> 
> hi Grant.
> 
> Old programmers never die … they just use VM software.
> 
> 
> I use Parallels 16 on Catalina.    If you buy parallels, waut till cyber week in the US, you might get a little money savings.   also, make sure DO NOT BUY the subscrption version, get the download licence version… then you don't have to pay for updates you won't use..
> 
> 
> I’m running the following VM’s on my Catalina Mac Book Pro
> - win 2000. (yes..  I still run it and use it to test things - even though it is 20 or so years old)
> - win xp
> - win 2008 server
> - Win 2012 server
> - Win 2016 server
> - win 2019 servers
> - win 10 (older and newer releases)
> - Mac OS 10.6.8 (snow leopard)
> - Yosemite,
> - El Capitan
> - Sierra
> - High Sierra
> - Mojave (so that I can still run studio 5 if need be)
> - Catalina
> - Big Sur
> - Ubuntu linux
> 
> 
> you have to be using an Intel based max to get all those.
> 
> and you can run the virtual machines in two modes.  One is normal mode, where it looks like you are running a windows VM in its own windowl, or coherence mode… which makes the windows MDI interface go away and you just see ‘windows’ windows within your mac environment.   its rather clever — so whiel the indow looks like another operating system, it is no longer in a container.  Kind of seamless.
> 
> 
> 
> Making the older operating systems took time ….  so I kept some images of them as backup.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
> 
>> On September 20, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Bookit Enterprises <bookit.grant at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I am in my final year of using Omnis in my business, as I am shutting it down next spring, sometime after I turn 75, which I think is a reasonable retirement age.
>> 
>> I am running 8.0.3.2 Studio on Mac High Sierra, and still using DF files.  I use it for less than half an hour a day, so I am not interested in upgrading to a version of Studio 10, nor transitioning to SQL.
>> 
>> However, High Sierra no longer gets security updates, so I would like to upgrade my operating system to Big Sur, and, eventually, Monterey.
>> 
>> I would like to have a partition on my hard drive that runs High Sierra and Studio 8.0.3.2, and nothing else.
>> 
>> A few years back, I did a partition and set up a second Mac OS, but found moving back and forth between operating systems annoying, so undid that.  Maybe my memory of the experience is incorrect, or I set things up poorly, or it’s just not a good solution.
>> 
>> I may also want to add Windows to the mix, as there are some programs on Windows I would like to run, which don’t have Mac equivalents.
>> 
>> Potential solutions seem to include Boot Camp, Wine, Parallels, Virtual Box, and VMware Fusion.
>> 
>> Does anyone have recommendations among these, or some other solution I have not come across, to run High Sierra, Big Sur, and Windows 10 seamlessly without rebooting between systems, and having Big Sur as my primary desktop?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Grant Thiessen
>> 
>> 
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