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W7 running in Virtualbox

Posted by ctitanic on February 5, 2009 – 6:57 am  Share
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If you don’t have a second machine to test Windows 7 and you don’t want to create an extra partition in your main PC for this purpose you still can test it creating a Virtual Machine. To create a Virtual Machine  you can use Virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft, which is a freeware or you can use VirtualBox, here you can find the instructions of how to install W7 in a Virtual PC created using VirtualBox.

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Working as IT Professional since 1994. IT Manager since 1999. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Tablet PC/UMPC since 2007. Owner/writer of www.ultramobilepc-tips.com . Published many articles in todoUMPC Magazine, www.todoUMPCmagazine.com, the first online magazine all about UMPCs. Maker of Tweaks2K2, a registry hacking tool for Pocket PC devices (www.tweaks2k2.com).


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  • Can it be installed on an external HD?
  • doogald
    I've been running Win7 in VMWare Fusion on my Mac and it's worked fine (I had a couple of blue screens, but when I bumped RAM from 768 to 1024 they never came back.) No Aero features, but that's ok; you get the basic idea of the interface without it.

    The only advice to anybody with Fusion that I would give is to NOT choose to let Fusion do an auto-install (which is basically a script that runs you through a Windows installation with little to no user interaction required.)
  • breley
    I'm giving this a try. I'm not familiar with VirtualBox, so it will be interesting to compare this with Microsoft's Virtual Machine. Plus this will be a useful way to use up a spare drive in my work box.
  • Been playing with Win7 for the last two weeks using a VirtualBox setup with no problems. Been surprised at the stability of Win7, still trying to get accustom to the new taskbar.
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