This is possible with the following options.
Create a dual-boot setup on your PC In a dual-boot setup, you typically
create two separate partitions, or areas, on your hard disk, and then install a
different OS on each. Using separate partitions keeps the OSes from interfering
with each other. In a dual-boot setup, you can run only one OS at a time.
Project 24 shows you how to create dual-boot (and multiboot) setups.
Run virtual-machine software Virtual-machine software, also called
PC-emulation software, is a program that runs on your existing OS (for
example, Windows) like other programs, and through software imitates
the behavior of a PC??™s hardware. You can then run a separate OS on the
virtual-machine software. Read on to learn more about this option.
Step 3: Understand What Virtual-Machine
Software Is and What It Does
A virtual-machine program installs on Windows much like any other program, except
that it puts some deep hooks (that??™s actually a technical word, but it??™s descriptive
in its normal meaning too) into Windows to allow it to perform the clever tricks that
enable it to emulate a PC.
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Once you??™ve installed the virtual-machine program, you install an OS on it??”just
as you would install the OS on actual hardware, except that in the virtual machine,
all the hardware is emulated. You then run the OS on the virtual machine.
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