How To: Running Windows XP on Mac

Do you need Windows on your Mac? Is Your application not working on Mac OS platform? Well... You need an emulator to run Windows operating system on your Mac. Let's make it!

First of all, You need a valid Windows installation Disk. In this example, we will use Windows XP

- To begin you will need the latest version of Virtual Box. You can get it on this link

Install VirtualBox on your Mac;

- When you finish the installation, Open Sun VirtualBox in applications menu and click on "New";

- You will see the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Click on Next;

- In this step you have to select the operating system that you want to install. In this step I have installed Windows XP;

- Now It's time to dedicate and define the RAM capacity of your virtual machine (It depends on your physical RAM capacity. If you have 2 GB RAM, that will be great to select 1 GB)

- In this step you will define a hard disk capacity for your virtual machine (10GB will be enough for all operating systems)

After the creation of hard drive; It's time to Start the operating system;

Make sure that you've inserted your installation CD on your Mac (In Settings > Storage, you have to select and add your DVD/CD reader to boot it)

Start your operating system and make the installation of Windows XP;

And Here you go ! Your Windows XP is running on Mac;

If you have questions about these steps, please leave a comment...

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  • Mac Seery says:

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