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Having extensively used VMware Fusion (all the versions from 1 beta till 3.1), Parallels (from their first public release till 5.x -haven’t yet upgraded to 6) and a lot of VirtualBox versions (Although I stopped using it six months ago), I can say that for Windows both Parallels and VMware ran circles around VirtualBox in terms of features, compatibility and ...
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If this is a hobby and you are not planning on releasing any apps to the app store, and you can tolerate the slow performance and don't care about running on real devices, then don't worry about it. However, if you are creating a business the it is essential to run on real hardware. Any low end Mac (MacBook Air 11", is my current favorite) will blow away any ...
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10.7 (Build 11A511) guest in VirtualBox 4.1 greater
Whilst end user forums are currently limited to Mac OS X Server, not updated for Lion, there is discussion of Lion (not always Lion Server) in that context.
With the most recent VirtualBox it is unnecessary to convert disk images; .dmg files are recognised.
Depending on your approach, you might see:
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Using a virtual disk in VMware you can avoid dedicating space to Windows 7 that is just free space, unlike a dual-boot where you'd have to allocate a partition that has all the free space you will ever need. (Probably true with other VM solutions, but I don't know.) While a VMware virtual disk does not auto-shrink, it starts out small (on the host disk) ...
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Yes it's possible. You don't need to install multiple virtualization software to run multiple virtualized systems.
You can use one virtualization software (VMware, Parallels or VirtualBox for example) to run multiple virtual machines at the same time.
You can edit the Virtual Machines.
You can change the amount of memory and the number of cores used by ...
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You can technically run Lion in a VM, but I really really really wouldn't recommend it. Here's why:
You're basically entering the murky world of Hackintoshes
Hackintoshes are inherently "hacky". The performance is rarely going to be as reliable as running OSX on mac hardware.
You're violating Apple's EULA.
If you really want to do it, here's a link, but ...
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Using BetterTouchTool on the Mac host machine,use a application specific rule for the VirtualBox VM to map the swipe gesture to keyboard shortcuts to change desktops. To tie the rule to the VM and not the prefs app, issue ln -s /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/Resources/VirtualBoxVM.app ~/Desktop/VBVM.app, to create an alias to the VM's app bundle on ...
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These instructions are for VirtualBox on Windows and Linux but they work well on OS X as well. Taken from here -- abridged and modified for OS X guest OS:
Rip your original retail DVD of Snow Leopard in ISO format.
In VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine. Name it as you want, but select "Mac OS X" as the operating system, and "Mac OS X Server" as the ...
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VirtualBox is free so the downside to trying it is just your time. I did, and stayed with it. I primarily run XP but I did play with a couple of Linux flavors on it as well.
Its seamless mode works well, showing only the application's windows on your OS X desktop among whatever other OS X stuff is there. I point my few remaining Windows apps to shared ...
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No as VirtualBox does not emulate the CPU but virtualizies it as described by Oracle.
You would need to find Virtual PC or Bochs (I have used both in the past) or others in a list from www.macwindows.com
However now getting an extra second hand intel box might well be the easiest thing to do and would definitely provide the faster solution.
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I also wanted to run ubuntu native on my iMac and could not figure it out for the longest time. I refused to use virtualization software. Took a look at ubuntu's website and the instructions it provides work the best for me.
First make bootable Ubuntu USB Stick
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
Restart your computer.
Hold ...
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Set up Host-Only, Internal or Bridged Networking. Whenever you change the virtual machine's network configuration you need to inform the operating system within that virtual machine of that change. The easiest way is to simply reboot the virtual machine.
Look up the virtual machine's IP-Adress using ip addr eth0.
Verify basic connectivity using ping ...
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With 10.6 and a USB keyboard, the Fn keys pass through to the app; OS-X only intercepts the media functions.
In your OS-X's Keyboard SysPrefs pane, is:
Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard
function keys
selected?
With this selection, my (unshifted) F-keys pass straight through to my VBox VM. With it unselected, I need to use the Fn key to generate ...
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I cannot compare to VMWare, but VirtualBox and Linux work just fine on my laptop. I run computationally expensive code on the Linux VM. It only has 1 CPU whereas the laptop is Core 2 Duo. The laptop has 8GB RAM and the VM gets 2 of those.
One slight performance improvement is to boot the VM headlessly, then ssh in, if your application isn't a GUI.
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People have gotten VirtualBox to use a partition as a drive for a virtual machine. However, I don't believe it is officially supported. This link, while discussing windows as the guest, may point you in the right direction.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.phpf=7&t=20793&p=89806&hilit=raw+partition+vista#p89806
Old but still contains ...
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It is however possible to install a client version of OS X in e.g. VMware Fusion - but not out of the box.
First you need to re-pack the installation DVD with a small correction (addition of one empty system file), telling Fusion that it is a server edition you are installing - and after the installation you need to do the same change in the installed OS X ...
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A Mac, especially one running Snow Leopard or Lion, requires at least 2 GB of RAM for decent system performance.
Even through the system requirements for Snow Leopard are 1 GB, it doesn't perform well with 1 GB. Lion requires 2 GB of RAM just to be able to run. If you plan on running a virtual machine setup and expect decent performance from both machines, ...
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Perhaps it may be less hassle to build a clean, new XP image rather than import the Sony?
Have you tried using VMWare vCenter Converter? It's a free utility.
Check your Windows XP license string. If it's a OEM license string, don't attempt the following conversion.
From memory, these are the steps in using Converter:
Power on the Sony and connect to your ...
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16GB Memory + 128GB SSD + Data Doubler from OWC (or analog from ebay) to put SSD into it. Only caveat would be if your MBP is one of early ones that had Optical SATA connector capped at 3Gbps. Then if you want SSD to be as fast as possible it's better to put it in place of HDD.
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As you've pointed out, there is plenty of virtualisation software. However, the most famous are Parallels and VMware Fusion (the other ones I haven't used, so I can't give you an opinion about them).
In my opinion, Parallels is the more robust one and gives me the best performance. There are a lot of online battles going one between both camps and there ...
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There should be no problems upgrading to the latest version of VirtualBox. You can just download and run the installer to upgrade, no additional uninstall steps are required.
You can also update automatically from the "VirtualBox" menu, by choosing "Check for Updates...". It should find a newer version, and prompt to download and install.
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Yes, you can easily copy virtual machines between systems.
The easiest way would be to just create the virtual machine on your linux machine, and when you are ready to copy it over, you can export it as an appliance. This will give you a single file to copy over to you Macbook Air.
Once you have the file copied over to your Air, you can then import it ...
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Parallels has a specific setting to optimize its VMs for backup by Time Machine and prevent backing up unchanged data.
To enable improved integration with Time Machine, please go to Virtual Machine Configuration, choose Options and hit Backup.
Select "Optimize for Time Machine" in SmartGuard menu.
Similarly, VMWare Fusion has some support for Time ...
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It depends on what kind of thing you want to do, but neither will be a good enough option.
If doing GPU-intensive work, your best and probably only option is BootCamp, and then Parallels.
VMWare Fusion would work, but it's slightly behind Parallels. VirtualBox is worst, but it's free.
As for whether you want Windows 7 or 8, it really depends, Windows 8 ...
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In my experience the graphical performance of Parallels is better than VirtualBox. I tested it running different versions of Ubuntu and Windows 7.
For simple tasks VirtualBox is sufficient and it's free. But if you want to play games Parallels might be the better choice.
An alternative could be the cheaper VMware Fusion, but I never tested it.
But there ...
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Try this:
Be sure that you have installed the latest version of Guest Additions to the VM
Turn off the VM
Under the network adapter configuration choose bridged mode
Then click in advanced and change the adapter type to Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545EM). -Be sure to enable the checkbox "Cable Connected"
Worked for me, hope it helps
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Those gestures are specific features of the Mac operating system, so they are not supported on Windows by default.
Elan Smart Pad is software which will allow you to do thinks linke gestures on a trackpad, so maybe there is your solution?
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Multi-touch gestures aren't built in to Windows. you'll need to use third party utilities to get these sort of functions. Check out this page for instructions on how to get the various mac functions working in Win7.
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I have a SL 10.6.8 VBox running as we speak. It works perfectly, if a bit slowly. I'm about to abandon it for reasons totally unrelated to VirtualBox, but let's see if I can remember everything I did to get it running:
1) Like the other answer said, start with a rip of an original SL DVD. Mine was 10.6.0.
2) Also like the other answer, create the new VM, ...
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In addition to the more RAM suggestion from Matt, I would look at investing in a solid state disk (SSD). Generally, user experience is bottlenecked on disk input/output, and an SSD has much higher throughput. Ever since I installed an SSD in my machine I no longer have 2nd thoughts about firing a VM and slowing down my system - I see almost no performance ...
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