VirtualBox is a great way to test out new operating systems, without having to configure your machine to dual-boot. You can even install Windows 7 on VirtualBox. There are two ways to obtain free operating systems for VirtualBox: using virtual disk images (VDIs) or actual installation disks. Downloa...

QuickBooks is one of those key business applications that many people who are considering a switch to the Mac are worried about leaving behind. While QuickBooks 2009 for Mac might be the perfect answer for many, others do not want to give up some of the key features of the Windows version. Intuit pr...

News: Sun enhances VirtualBox with Version 2.1 updates InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA The free and open-source desktop virtualization software from Sun gets a number of updates in Version 2.1 of VirtualBox. It was almost a year ago that Sun ... See all stories on this topic Blogs: JJinuxLand: Virt...

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Ich stieg also auf deinen Mac um. Von Windows XP. Wie ich das allgemein empfand, das könnt ihr im Beitrag von gestern lesen. Hier jetzt meine Probleme, die Lösungen und was ich sonst noch so zu Mac OS X zu sagen habe. Mails Ein major PITA1 war der Import meines Mail-Archivs von Outlook 200...

What do I need to do to prep my MacBook Pro for running Vista as a virtual machine? I need Windows to run two or three specialized programs. I am also a die-hard Apple lover. Thus, I don't know what needs to be done to a Vista system to keep it from catching every virus ever made. I'm running last y...

Despite Parallels and VirtualBox both being programs which run virtual machines on Mac OS X, they both use different file formats for storing the virtual machines on disk. Though I believe Parallels will open a VirtualBox disk, VirtualBox cannot automatically import Parallels disks. But it's not imp...

VMWare Fusion and Parallels have been the two dominant OS X virtualization methods for running Windows (or Linux) inside of OS X. While both are great applications, they each cost around $80 US. Recently, Sun Microsystems (makers of Solaris, big purple servers and pony tailed CEO’s) have unlea...

Don’t try to run both VirtualBox and Parallels virtual machines on your Mac at the same time. Seems to be a good way to give Mac OS X a heart attack....

To settle an argument and hopefully win a pint, I've documented the process for installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into a VirtualBox vm on a Mac. For reference, the host is Mac OS X (10.5.3) with 2G RAM.  So first off, here is my Guest Configuration:   Note that I didn't skimp on guest Ba...