Any reason to go with dual boot vs. virtualization or vice versa?

[pinkoos]

Seems like it would use up unnecessary hard drive space by setting up an Intel Mac for dual boot (via Boot Camp) *and* virtualization (via Parallels).

So, which would you choose and why?

[pinkoos]

Sorry, didn't see tuqqer's post a few threads below:

http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/78324

[rz]

I really hope someone will install both parallels and bootcamp and give us a report on it. I would, but don't have an intel iMachine to try it on.

[TheTominator]

Put simply I would choose dual boot for maximum performance.

Choose virtualization for maximum convenience (and pretty good performance).

[Silencio]

Both approaches have their uses. I'd use virtualization maybe 90% of the time, unless there was some Windows-only game I was really into.

Hopefully by the time Leopard is ready, you'll be able to use the same Windows install both as a native boot source and under the virtualization layer. Right now I'm pretty sure they are not interchangable, which means you'd need two separate installations of Windows on your machine if you to have it both ways...