![]() (It’s usually called “Untitled”.) Then, launch Terminal so you can enter two commands. First, eject the Windows boot camp disk in Finder. The tricky part: You’ll need to do a little bit of geeky stuff. ![]() This is an open source virtualization system that runs on Mac OS, a lot like Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, but available for free. All of the Vista drivers for Boot Camp worked fine for me, and the install was actually pretty quick. Here’s what you’ll need to do: Install Windows 7 under Boot Camp, following the normal instructions. I happen to just really like Windows 7 (it’s on par with Mac OS overall for me, with some parts being better, such as the Windows Taskbar being much better than the Mac’s Dock, and of course some parts being worse.) Some of these instructions may be obvious, but I hadn’t seen a writeup anywhere, so here goes. If you’re like a lot of geeks that I know, you have a Mac as your main machine, but often need to drop into Windows to check things like browser compatibility or to use some particular Windows applications. A license for a full install of Windows 7 Ultimate.A MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard).Pardon the uncharacteristically nerdy post, but I thought I’d write up a handy way I’d found to run Windows 7 in a seamlessly-integrated virtual machine under Mac OS X 10.6. When I said “for free” here, I meant that virtualization is available at no cost, not that Microsoft’s giving Windows licenses away for free. I thought it’s amazing that a technology I still think of as fairly advanced, virtualizing operating systems on the desktop, has become commoditized enough that free, open source tools are very mature. Update: Since this post got a lot more readers than I expected, it’s become clear to me that the title was unintentionally vague.
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