James Bannan25 December 2008, 12:00 PM
How to run Windows XP inside Mac OS X free of charge, without paying for Parallels or VMware. Our step-by-step tutorial has all the answers!
Page 1 - Intro
Step 1 - Prepare Your System
In this tutorial we're going to virtualize Windows XP Professional SP3 on OS X 10.5.6 using Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.0. To prepare for this tutorial you should have the necessary resources available:
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.0 for Intel Mac (available here)
- Windows XP installation media
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.