Installing X3e on a dual-boot system?

gustabo
Not necessarily, a lot of info for plugins are stored in the registry.
 

tlw
The two Windows installations will be entirely seperate and the configuration of one will not affect the other (apart from the boot manager, obviously). Software installed in one will generally not be usable in the other without a seperate install. I've riun Sonar under Windows dual boot, but I've never tried to have two installations, one in each Windows install, with shared anything. My setup was a "general" installation and a "DAW only" installatoin.
 
You might get away with only installing the Sonar content once and pointing both installations at it, but any changes to it made by one installation might confuse the other. As for plugins, again you might get away with pointing both installations at the same VST directories and having the second one scan it without re-installing the plugins in the second Windows install. However I wouldn't bet on it working and certainly not bet on such a setup being trouble free. If the plugin installation routine writes anything to the registry or there are files the plugin uses (i.e. it's not a stand-alone dll) then expect a mess unless you do seperate installs for each Windows installation. If plugins have licensers (e.g. Waves) then that will need a seperate install for each OS.
 
A further problem might be permissions, as Windows 1 might be unwilling to write to directories in Windows 2 and vice versa because the file permissions indicate it shouldn't. This is particularly likely in the Program Files directories or Windows directory itself.