 - A guest OS is an operating system (OS) that is installed in a virtual machine or disk partition in addition to the host or main OS. In virtualization, a single computer can run more than one OS at the same time and a guest OS can be different from the host OS. In disk partitioning, a guest OS must be the same as the host OS.
A program called Boot Camp allows users of Intel-based Macintosh (Mac) computers to run Windows XP as a guest OS. Once Boot Camp has been installed on the Mac's hard disk, the user can boot the computer using either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Boot Camp will be incorporated as a standard feature of the next release of Mac OS X, known as Leopard. In May 2006, Boot Camp became available in a beta version.
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