I bought a new MacBookPro 16" with an 8 Terabyte drive. I want to install windows and RedHat. My question is should I partition the drive for each operating system and if I install parallels should I also install bootcamp.
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New MacBookPro 16" with 8 Terabyte drive want to install windows and RedHat
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It depends on what you are trying to accomplish and how you want to use windows and red hat (and what you want to do with them)
If you are going to use Parallels to run virtual machines I would not partition the disks. This gives you the option of resizing the VMs without you running into a conflict with partition size.
No particular reason to run bootcamp if you have the VM. However that is another issue, bootcamp does have some advantages.
I agree with HDFan. With Parallels or VMWare Fusion, you do not need to partition your drive and can run Windows or RedHat smoothly together with MacOS. You need, however, to allocate memory to the VM, which cannot be used by MacOS. With a total of 16 GB RAM or more, that should not be a problem.
In response to HDFan and Wouter3, For windows I want to use some smart home automation tools and devices that are not compatible with iHome. I also have the windows version of Labview I would like to use. For Red-hat, I have a software controlled radio that I would like to start using again. I recently retired and no longer have access to company OS dedicated computers. I use Mac OS better than 95% of the time.
If you run Windows under bootcamp, you chose whether to bootup in MacOS or Windows. If you run Windows under Parallels or VMWare Fusion, you can run these Windows- and Redhat-tools seamlessly in parallel with MacOS. In your case I would buy either Parallels or VMWare Fusion, install Windows and off you go. Allocate memory to your Mac and Windows as required. Typically you could allocate 12 GB to MacOS and 4 to Parallels or Fusion. I run Parallels on my 12" Macbook (2015) with 5GB for MacOS and 3 GB for Parallels/Windows. That works OK, although more memory the better.
I haven't tried to run RedHat on my Mac, but have experience with both VMWare Fusion as well as Parallels running Windows 10. Both are excellent packages and offer outstanding support. If you want easy access to both Mac and Windows apps, this is the way to go IMHO.
I haven't tried to run RedHat on my Mac, but have experience with both VMWare Fusion as well as Parallels running Windows 10. Both are excellent packages and offer outstanding support. If you want easy access to both Mac and Windows apps, this is the way to go IMHO.