Can I switch between OpenBSD and macOS using same laptop?

d11

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Idk if its ok to ask this question in a programming category but I couldnt find anything closer.
Is it possible to use OpenBSD but keep macOS as a main OS and maybe even have WIndows installed, so I could switch between macOS-Windows-OpenBSD?

 

devbl.ue

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Hi. Check out virtualization products like Oracle VM Virtualbox. You can pretty much run any OS you want inside your machine without having to dual boot.

 

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devbl.ue said:

Hi. Check out virtualization products like Oracle VM Virtualbox. You can pretty much run any OS you want inside your machine without having to dual boot.

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Was wondering why he didnt consider such a route . Would be kind if someone came along and posted some stable repo's to get along.

 

d11

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seancoder said:

Was wondering why he didnt consider such a route . Would be kind if someone came along and posted some stable repo's to get along.

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cause I am not proficient

 

seancoder

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d11 said:

cause I am not proficient

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That shouldnt shy you off , keep it up, the sky is your limit !

 

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seancoder said:

That shouldnt shy you off , keep it up, the sky is your limit !

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are you an openBSD user btw?

 

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Probably not natively, not atleast with apple silicon. The only way this would work is through virtualisation. For windows parallels works fine. For others try virtualbox.


Am I a openbsd user? nopes, but that doesn’t matter.

 

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as others already said, easiest would be to use virtualization via virtualbox or vmware etc
otherwise you could create multiple partitions and install a bootloader like grub.
personally i prefer FreeBSD btw its great for servers.