Editing Multi-booting (section)

=== Apple's Boot Camp ===
{{Main|Boot Camp (software)}}

Boot Camp allows owners of [[Apple–Intel architecture|Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers]] to install Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 on their Macs. The software was initially available in beta version as a download from Apple's website (which was compatible with [[Mac OS X]] version 10.4 (Tiger)), and later came bundled with Mac OS X since version 10.5 (Leopard).

Boot Camp allows non-destructive disk partitioning and resizing of [[HFS+]] [[filesystems]], boot menu options, and an option to burn a CD with necessary [[device drivers]]. Since [[Windows XP]] is incompatible with [[Extensible Firmware Interface]] (the successor to legacy [[BIOS]]), the firmware on early [[Intel]] Macs needs to be updated to support BIOS emulation first. BIOS emulation is achieved with a compatibility support module (CSM).  Apple does not support non-Windows partition formats or drivers so therefore configuring other operating systems is not directly possible through Boot Camp itself. However, any operating system which can utilize the BIOS emulation of Intel Macintosh can be made to work, including non-XP versions of [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].  The [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]] Linux distribution is particularly popular for this purpose because they provide an option to use [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] device drivers along with open source drivers.