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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me run Windows on Mac

by Erica Sadun (Sep 8th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I am new to the Mac community, and there are some programs that are unsupported on the Mac and I know there are a few options to run Windows on a Mac. When I search online for the best options and answers to my questions (what is the best option, do I need a Windows ...

Lion to allow two virtualized instances of Mac OS X per machine

by Michael Rose (Jul 3rd, 2011)

The virtualization story for Mac OS X is about to change dramatically, and for the better, as Lion's licensing changes the rules for virtual machines. For some enterprise deployments, virtual Mac OS X environments are the Holy Grail: giving access to Mac-only applications on demand without ...

Before there was Boot Camp, there were DOS Compatibility Cards

by Steven Sande (Dec 10th, 2009)

With our zippy Intel Macs able to eagerly boot up Windows 7 in Boot Camp, VMWare, Parallels, and VirtualBox, it's difficult to fathom that it was ever a problem to run Microsoft operating systems on our Apple boxes. The situation wasn't that good just a scant 15 or so years ago. Back in the ...

Windows 7 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard at no additional cost

by Dave Caolo (Oct 22nd, 2009)

Anil Dash has described how to run Windows 7 on a Mac running OS 10.6 -- as a virtual machine -- for free (after you buy Windows 7, of course). It's not very tricky and, according to Anil, works well. Start by installing Windows 7 in Boot Camp and wait while it grabs the necessary drivers (the ...

How to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac -- it's easy and free

by Steven Sande (Sep 7th, 2009)

I received a private tweet from a reader the other day, who asked a question about a previous post in which I had installed Windows 7 RC1 on a Mac using Sun's VirtualBox. The tweet asked, "You did a post about installing Win 7 on the Mac for free. How about Linux?," which set up a challenge. Not ...

Installing Windows 7 RC1 on your Mac... for free

by Steven Sande (May 10th, 2009)

Sometimes you have to use Windows. Supporting clients in multiple-OS environments makes this a necessity for some Mac users, while others want to run applications that are available in Windows only. You can get a preview of the latest flavor of Windows, Windows 7, by running Release Candidate 1 of ...

Install Windows 7 on a Mac

by Dave Caolo (Jan 23rd, 2009)

Raise your hand if you remember when a Mac was a Mac and a Windows machine was a Windows machine, and never the twain shall meet. I sure do. Change has come. Our own Christina Warren has written an exhaustive set of instructions for installing Windows 7 on a Mac over at our sister site, Download ...

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a Mac

by Christina Warren (Oct 30th, 2008)

When it comes to virtualization on the Mac, it's mostly discussed in the context of running a variant of Microsoft Windows. This makes sense; the ease of getting Windows to run within OS X (on Intel hardware) is one of the key reasons many first-time Mac buyers are migrating to Apple. However, ...

Sun xVM VirtualBox: free x86 virtualiztion

by Mat Lu (May 23rd, 2008)

We first noted the open-source virtualization application VirtualBox way back in 2007, and since then this open-source competitor to VMware Fusion and Parallels has come a long way. Most importantly, perhaps, the project was acquired by Sun Microsystems and has now become Sun xVM VirtualBox with a ...

Virtual Box: Open Source Virtualization Coming to the Mac

by Mat Lu (Jan 16th, 2007)

Parallels has been doing an amazing job with their Parallel's Desktop, and industry heavy-weight VMWare is also making waves with their Fusion client. So you might ask whether another competitor is really needed in the virtualization space. But this one, Virtual Box, comes with a twist: it's ...