Raanan Bar-Cohen

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Running Windows 7 On OS X Using VirtualBox

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I installed the GPL Open Source virtualization app VirtualBox tonight with Windows 7 so I could run the BlackBerry simulator on my Mac. It runs basically everything you would need:

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD

Been running it for a bit, and so far so good, and really impressed by how easy it was to setup. Score one more for Open Source :)

VirtualBox even has some well made screencasts to get you started. I’ve included one below:

Good stuff.

Written by Raanan Bar-Cohen

June 6, 2009 at 2:08 am

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  1. awesome … loved it

    shahryar ghazi

    June 8, 2009 at 5:09 am

  2. Great tutorial. thx 4 sharing

    neo

    December 28, 2009 at 9:47 pm


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