[bigmac]

Hi everyone. This forum and the knowledge its members share never ceases to amaze me. I was searching some posts yesterday on using parallels for mac on the 10v. I came across a post that mentioned a free program called virtual box by sun microsystems. I had never heard of it before and decided to google it and check it out. Well within a few hours with some more help searching the forums I had successfully installed virtual box on my mini 10v and then made a iso file of the original windows XP disc that came with my mini. Now thanks to the members of this forum I have the ability to run windows XP within Mac OSX 10.6.2 snow leopard, on my dell mini 10v. That is just way too awesome. Thanks to everyone on these forums for sharing your knowledge and experiences. Ive included a screen shot of my desktop with windows xp running in a virtual box window within Mac OSX and a about this mac window open on top.

[w7ox]

Interesting that it works. I have Parallels and WinXPPro on my MacBook but use WinXP there so seldom that I'll probably not try this out (plus I have an all-up Windows 7 desktop to do things where the best software does not exist in the Mac world).

But this may be of great interest to some as an alternative to dual booting: Thanks for posting it :-)

Phil

[serhito]

Originally Posted by bigmac

Hi everyone. This forum and the knowledge its members share never ceases to amaze me. I was searching some posts yesterday on using parallels for mac on the 10v. I came across a post that mentioned a free program called virtual box by sun microsystems. I had never heard of it before and decided to google it and check it out. Well within a few hours with some more help searching the forums I had successfully installed virtual box on my mini 10v and then made a iso file of the original windows XP disc that came with my mini. Now thanks to the members of this forum I have the ability to run windows XP within Mac OSX 10.6.2 snow leopard, on my dell mini 10v. That is just way too awesome. Thanks to everyone on these forums for sharing your knowledge and experiences. Ive included a screen shot of my desktop with windows xp running in a virtual box window within Mac OSX and a about this mac window open on top.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3611260/desktoppic.tiff

Did you find a good tutorial on this forum ? Looking to do the same thing but with windows 7. I am trying Fusion, but don't know how to actually install windows without the disc or with the usb key.
Thanks.

[WolfKeeper]

Windows 7 runs very slow under SL. I recommend XP in a virtual machine, and if you need Windows 7, dual-boot.

[yogibear]

I find that XP runs really slow running it on 10.6.2 with Fusion. It may be the fact that I only have 1gb of memory (am upgrading to 2 gb). May play with the dual boot and see if that works better if the additional ram is not the answer.

[WolfKeeper]

I run XP with Fusion and 2GB and it runs great. Office 2003 even outperforms iWork.

[serhito]

Originally Posted by WolfKeeper

I run XP with Fusion and 2GB and it runs great. Office 2003 even outperforms iWork.

Stupid question...but how do you install xp in Fusion ?
I had a dual boot with 7 and I would get an error while using the dual boot partition. I also don't see how I can install windows in Fusion without the DVD.
Thanks.

[HotDog]

I'm running VB with XP over OSX 10.6.2 and I find to be surprisingly snappy. I expected it to crawl, and it is not all that great, but seems to be much peppier than Parallels that I once had on my MBP. Install was interesting as there is no guide for DM-10V installs; took some trial/error on the preferences in VB to make it work, but is is pretty solid. I also now use VB on my MBPs and my MacMinis for those rare times that I have to stoop to XP.

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From what I've heard, VB is easier to install than Fusion, and runs better. Just gossip . . .

[WolfKeeper]

Originally Posted by serhito

Stupid question...but how do you install xp in Fusion ?
I had a dual boot with 7 and I would get an error while using the dual boot partition. I also don't see how I can install windows in Fusion without the DVD.
Thanks.

Create an ISO of the install CD/DVD and copy it to your hard drive so Fusion can see it. Point the installer to use the ISO for the OS install.

[grassle]

@HotDog:
How did you get it so snappy? I tried XP in VB on 10.6.2, too, but it is really.. ah... viscous...
Maybe a problem of too few resources? Mini 9, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB SSD, the XP runs on a 4 GB virtual disk, some 1300 MB allocated RAM, and paging turned off.