Running Windows 7 in a virtual machine on a Mac
I haven't seen any notes on this topic, but I thought a brief comment might be useful. I'm running Windows 7 as a virtual machine under OSX 10.5.6 on a MacBook Pro. I've never had any problems with Vista (Office Pro) and I haven't really had any problems with Windows 7 on the Mac. My network connection is going through the Mac system, but seems to work as fast as my browsers work under 10.5 on the Mac. I've done some down loading of shareware to W7 and have had no problems with those programs working.
January 27th, 2009 12:53am

I too am trying Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro using Sun's VirtualBox VM. I haven't done much in the way of experimentation, but everything seems to work well so far.
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March 10th, 2009 5:00am

I have had Win7 on a MS VPC for about 3 weeks now. Not too much in the way of problems as yet!I can not find a way to have speakers to work. Also, still have not been able to set up a printer at all.It keeps calling for a security system to be added, but Defender is part of the program as is IE 8.Any ideas?? I am using Win XP as the host machine. In the initial setup I had to choose Vista, Just for the size allocations for memory and HD. Started out with mem. set to the max at 700, then dropped back to 600, better access now. HD is set to 64 G. On 3-29 I added MS Office '07, Took a while, 2hr total, with no apparent problems so far.Mem. on host machine is 1 G, will max out to 4 G very shortly.
March 31st, 2009 9:49pm

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