Virtual Windows
Written on May 30, 2009 by Katherine W. Prawl
About a month ago, long-time friend Deirdré (@DeirdreS on Twitter) suggested I try Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox application, after I’d complained about the necessity to buy yet another copy of Parallels to put on my home webserver. Since it’s opensource software, and I’m a fan of Sun anyway (having used Solaris when I worked at Cadence Design Systems some years back), I got it and ran it on the Mac Mini I use at home. I then downloaded and installed the OpenSolaris operating system, which worked beautifully. As soon as I have time to figure it out, I’ll install a Project Wonderland server there, which is why I wanted a VM system on the server in the first place.
However, now I’ve gotten a little crazy. I heard in a podcast that MicroSoft has a free beta release of Windows 7 that will run until June 2010, and since I’d just bought another 2.5″ external hard disk drive and had plenty of storage space, I decided to see what it’s like. Well, this is what it’s like to run Windows 7 in a Sun Microsystems VM on Mac OS X:
Now, is that geeky, or what?
