Installing Virtual Box and Windows 7 on Mac OSX
by admin on Feb.05, 2012, under FreeBSD
www.virtualbox.org VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. What does that mean? For one thing, it installs on your existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. Secondly, it extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time. So, for example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, run Windows Server 2008 on your Linux server, run Linux on your Windows PC, and so on, all alongside your existing applications. You can install and run as many virtual machines as you like — the only practical limits are disk space and memory. VirtualBox is deceptively simple yet also very powerful. It can run everywhere from small embedded systems or desktop class machines all the way up to datacenter deployments and even Cloud environments. When dealing with virtualization (and also for understanding the following chapters of this documentation), it helps to acquaint oneself with a bit of crucial terminology, especially the following terms: Terminology: Host operating system (host OS). This is the operating system of the physical computer on which VirtualBox was installed. There are versions of VirtualBox for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris hosts; for details, please see the section called “Supported host operating systems”. Most of the time, this User Manual discusses all VirtualBox versions together …
February 5th, 2012 on 8:53 am
@LouisOwles1 It would depend on the games but it does use the graphics native hardware when you enable 3D Acceleration. The Macbook Pro I used only has an Intel 3000 integrated graphics and it’s decent but not great. If your Macbook Pro is one of the 15inch with the ATI discrete graphics then you are in good shape. If it is a desktop with a decent graphics card then it will do fine.
February 5th, 2012 on 9:09 am
hey mate, really helpful! quick questions, how well would it run mmo games on the OS?
February 5th, 2012 on 9:17 am
@ninjaslasher432 Do you see the little disc icon on the bottome left of the window blinking or hear the disc being accessed? if that works then there is a problem with the disc. If it is not then the disc drive is not mounted to the virtual machine. you would have to right click that icon and select the hosted drive as your virtual drive.
February 5th, 2012 on 9:57 am
even if i reset it, it still shows me the no BOOTABLE medium found :s ? help ?
February 5th, 2012 on 10:51 am
@haolovemaria I guess so.
February 5th, 2012 on 11:41 am
@johnnythegeek1 I mean my Mac could only uses Windows XP?
February 5th, 2012 on 12:11 pm
@haolovemaria looks like that might be your only choice.
February 5th, 2012 on 12:26 pm
@johnnythegeek1 So… i’m going to use Windows XP?
February 5th, 2012 on 1:20 pm
@haolovemaria You might be able to use Windows XP with only 512 Ram
February 5th, 2012 on 1:48 pm
@johnnythegeek1 Is there any other way to install windows 7 on my Mac???
February 5th, 2012 on 2:22 pm
i have 2GB and 1.6GHz, darn
February 5th, 2012 on 3:17 pm
@haolovemaria You probably don’t have enough ram.
February 5th, 2012 on 3:20 pm
@johnnythegeek1 never mind, but my Mac always “freeze”, it can’t install windows 7 or 8
February 5th, 2012 on 4:03 pm
@haolovemaria What do you mean?
February 5th, 2012 on 4:42 pm
How do I get the host drive???
February 5th, 2012 on 5:21 pm
@dxiong5 you would use bootcamp if you wanted it on one hdd/ssd
February 5th, 2012 on 5:41 pm
@supersmashbrosv2 @johnnythegeek1 Is there a benefit to running Bootcamp [in a Hack] as opposed to simply running two HDDs/SSDs with different OSs on each?
February 5th, 2012 on 6:23 pm
@johnnythegeek1 I’m not sure about the year, but this is 10.5.8 Leopard
February 5th, 2012 on 7:19 pm
@haolovemaria What year and model do you have?
February 5th, 2012 on 8:19 pm
I mean 10.5.8
February 5th, 2012 on 9:00 pm
How could I add more memory on my macbook 10.5.6??? please reply me as fast as possible, thank you…
February 5th, 2012 on 9:20 pm
@johnnythegeek1 Thanks for the quick reply. Subscribed.
February 5th, 2012 on 9:25 pm
@austinmmboy I don’t think it is possible in the sense that the virus that works on Windows will not work on Mac because the two operating systems are written in a different language. The only thing I could think of is if the virus were to attack the partitions but you would have to have special software that could read mac partition in windows like Mac Drive 8. Then the virus would have to attack it that way but that is pretty rare. Thanks for watching!
February 5th, 2012 on 9:32 pm
Is it possible to get a virus on your Mac then if you install windows?
February 5th, 2012 on 9:43 pm
@MrSomeBacon Yes you can change it after the install. You just can’t do it while the VM is running so shut down the VM first then make your changes.