Virtual Box

Ok so I got the answer I needed for if you can run VMWare or Parallels off of a bootcamp drive, however I CAN'T afford to buy that. So instead I got Virtual Box. Now virtual Box wasn't in the stickies so I think this should be ok to discuss, if not please feel free to delete it Mods. Anyway, I can't figure out how to get the Virtual Box to load from my Bootcamp drive. Anyone else use this and know what to do? I dont want to have to delete that partition or create a new one just to use VB. I don't have a large enough Hard Drive. So thanks for the help guys and gals.

 

No thoughts or usage? Hmmm

 

I tried it once, running off the mac partition, but abandoned it because it didn't support 1440x900 and I couldn't stand having a max resolution of 1024x768 (or whatever it was). That was a while ago, maybe the situation is different now...

 

virtual box doesn't support loading windows from the bootcamp partition as far as i know.

edit: believe it or not, you can afford vmware. save some monies.

 

virtualbox just runs within your OS (OSX, Linux, Windows). Don't need bootcamp (I'm new to mac/bootcamp, but have used VB with linux a lot).

Once you install VB, hit 'new' and follow the steps to create a virtual HD, assign a virtual machine RAM, etc. Then, stick your Windows/Linux disk in and start the machine. It will act as if it's on another computer and has its own hardware - you'll go through that OS's install process and voila, you have a machine you can run within your current OS.

I run Windows/Linux VMs under Ubuntu using VirtualBox. I notice some performance hit, but I mostly use the VMs for simple tasks, so it's not a big deal.

I'm planning on using Windows/Linux vm's within OSX on my new MBP, gonna do that once I get OSX reinstalled.

 

VirutalBox is a far cry away from the abilities of VMware or Parallels

I'm testing out some newer builds of VMware (although I think I'm not supposed to say that...) and its going to be even better than the current version 2 pretty soon... much better than Parallels... Parallels better have something up their sleeve...

Your not supposed to do it... but VMware 30 day free trials only take a email address to get.... and since you can get free email addresses in unlimited amounts on the net... well... lets just say i used a "free trial" of vmware like 6 months before I bought it.

but I'd say buy it, its very nice software. If you have a .edu email address you can get an academic discount for 50% off too.

The prices for the non-Mac versions are pretty high, but the Mac version is only $80 .. they had to price it down to compete with Parallels, but it really is a better product.

 

40 bucks for VM ware is good, I do have an .edu email so that is what it would be about, but at the moment I don't have 40. Now the email thing...shame on you for turning me to the darker side

 

Just wanted to confirm this.

I find Virtual Box works fine for the basics. No need to BUY anything. And whoever said it doesn't support higher resolutions doesn't know what they're talking about. Windows 7 @ 1920x1200 looks great on my 17" MBP.

 

VirtualBox is good stuff, never had the opportunity to run it on OS X. But the seamless mode running windows on windows and having 2 taskbars, 1 desktop is awesome. Did that ever come out of beta for OSX?

Only thing i ever had issues with was usb, once i got the pass through solved i never needed vmware for anything else (pc version ofcourse). As far as that res goes just make sure the guest os has its driver installed, should install with the guest additions.

 

As soon as VirtualBox gets any support for OpenGL and Direct3D... it might threaten VMware or Parallels again... but its way behind in the graphical front.