Can Blender 2.80 run in windows 10 virtual machine

[jesse94]

I have been doing a little research on virtual machines like VirtualBox and that got me wounding if I can run windows 10 on my mac using VirtualBox and run blender 2.80 on windows 10 and what do the extension pack do for you if you download it alongside the VirtualBox software? 

My iMac system

am running an iMac osx late 2012 version 10.9.5 Macintosh HD with a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 Processor and 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 of Memory and an NVIDIA Geforce GTX Graphics card

[status451_cg]

You can, but why would you want to when there is a native MacOS version of Blender available?

Running Blender (or any application) through a virtual machine involves a bit of a performance hit (as the virtual machine only gets a reduced share of your processor, memory etc.) and you cannot access your real hardware directly. The most relevant example is that Blender running in a virtual machine would not have access to your Nvidia graphics card, and therefore CUDA rendering will not be available.

[noonespecific]

Bootcamp is still around, right? That would probably work better.

[jesse94]

@status451_cg  I was afraid that all of my other apps will not be supported if I upgraded my iMac but in the end I gave in and upgraded my iMac and it seems like all of my other apps work fine and now I can run blender now    

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