Imac extended display with win 7

Hi,
I currently own an imac 27" and i'm looking for an option to have both mac os and win 7 running simultaneously. Is this possible? Instead of using bootcamp, i was thinking of using a virtualized copy of win 7 and have it extended onto a second 27" display.
If anyone has a similar setup, could you pls share your experience?

That's pretty simple, you only need to get either Parallels or Fusion, both are virtualization apps designed to allow you to run Windows (or other OS's) from within OS X. Both applications do the same thing, one isn't better than the other. Some people prefer Parallel's some prefer Fusion. You can find information on both at:
Parallels
Fusion
Roger

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