How to virtualize Vista on Mac OS X

James Bannan24 December 2008, 12:12 AM

How to run Windows Vista inside Mac OS X, without paying for VMware or Parallels. Our step-by-step tutorial will give you all the information you need!

Page 1 - Intro

Step 1 - Prepare Your System

In this tutorial we're going to virtualize Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 on OS X 10.5.6 using Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.0. This tutorial should also work with other versions of Windows Vista. To prepare for this tutorial you should have the necessary resources available:
  • Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.0 for Intel Mac (available here)
  • Windows Vista installation DVD

This tutorial was tested on an Apple Macbook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU with 2GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.5.6.

Continue to page 2: Step 2 - Install VirtualBox
Page 1 Intro
Page 2 Step 2 - Install VirtualBox
Page 3 Step 3 - Create New Vista VM
Page 4 Step 4 - Install Vista
Page 5 Step 5 - Install Guest Additions
Page 6 Step 6 - More VirtualBox Options

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