This blog post will probably be only be useful to a small niche. If you have a Mac, with a printer, and run Windows in VirtualBox, here’s what you need to do to get it to work. Step 1: Make … Continue reading
November 20, 2012
by Neil T
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November 20, 2012
by Neil T
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This blog post will probably be only be useful to a small niche. If you have a Mac, with a printer, and run Windows in VirtualBox, here’s what you need to do to get it to work. Step 1: Make … Continue reading
October 30, 2012
by Neil T
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On Saturday, I decided to upgrade to Windows 8. I’ve been running a virtual machine with Windows Vista Business for some time, firstly in Parallels Desktop but later converted to VirtualBox. I never bothered upgrading to Windows 7 due to … Continue reading
May 1, 2009
by Neil T
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ReactOS is designed to be an alternative to Windows, going as far as replicating the Windows NT architecture. The aim is to allow all Windows programs, utilities and even drivers to work on ReactOS.
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December 22, 2008
by Neil T
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VirtualBox 2.1 is out, and with it comes an important change: VT-x support.
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December 7, 2008
by Neil T
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This time next week I will be unemployed. Unfortunately my short-term contract at work hasn’t been renewed so I’m looking for work for after Christmas. Thankfully I have some money saved up to keep us afloat for a couple of … Continue reading
November 19, 2008
by Neil T
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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 impossible…
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November 11, 2008
by Neil T
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I’ve previously recommended Parallels Desktop for Mac as a good way to run Windows on a Mac. But I’m not going to upgrade to version 4.
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September 6, 2008
by Neil T
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Whereas I sometimes do things like this.
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September 4, 2008
by Neil T
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VirtualBox is Sun Microsystems’ entry into the Virtual Machine market, and competes against Parallels and VMWare. Unlike the others, it is free and comes in an open source flavour.
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