![]() VirtualBox is backed by Sun Microsystems, which could explain the high quality and usability and polished interfaces.īack to my Windows XP installation. ![]() Since then, the Mac OS X version has been brought up on par with the other host OSes supported (which include Windows, Linux and Solaris). In fact, I first heard about it last year, but was not impressed when at that time hardware virtualization support was not available on Mac OS X hosts. This is a lot better than other opensource virtualization software. It has all the features of Parallels and VMware, including Guest OS additions which provide enhancements such as mouse pointer integration, accelerated graphics performance and arbitrary screen resolutions. In fact, VirtualBox is a lot more than merely “decent”. That makes VirtualBox about the only decent free virtualization software available on Mac OS X. At any rate, VMware Player is “crippled”, and VMware Server isn’t quite so suitable to run on a desktop/notebook environment. VMware’s free editions, VMware Player and VMware Server, do not support Mac OS X hosts. What’s even greater about VirtualBox is that it’s free, and opensource. It’s a really great virtualization software similar to VMware and Parallels (both of which can run on a Mac OS X host computer). Virtualization is the solution to what I need. I want to have both OS environments at the same time. I never really like dual-booting to choose and switch between two operating systems. It’s not even running natively on my MacBook (i.e. It has never been that fast on my other previous computers. I’m impressed, Windows XP boots up in 20 seconds. After procrastinating for too long, I’ve finally gotten around to installing Windows XP into my MacBook.
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