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By. 6:30 am, January 2, 2015. Because you can. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac One of the selling points of a Mac these days is the ability to run Windows software on it, via or Apple’s own. Running Windows lets you play PC games that haven’t been ported to the Mac, or stay completely compatible with your documents from a PC-centric workplace.
Virtualization software like Parallels or VMWare Fusion (two of the best apps to run Windows software on your Mac without partitioning your hard drive for Boot Camp) isn’t free, though these applications do allow you to try before you buy. Windows 8.1, the current version of Microsoft’s operating system, will run you about $120 for a plain-jane version. You can run the next-gen OS from Microsoft (Windows 10) on your Mac using virtualization for free, however. We took a quick run at doing just that, as originally sussed out by the.
Grab that virtual box We’re going to use a free, open source bit of emulation software called VirtualBox, from Oracle. It’s pretty robust and works almost as well as the more costly solutions like Parallels or VMWare Fusion, so you can get a taste of things without having to bust out the credit card. Head on over to the, and click on the Download link over to the left. You’ll want to choose the latest VirtualBox version (4.3.20 as of this writing) for OS X hosts x86/amd64. Once downloaded, you can launch and install the app, which will get you ready to roll with Windows 10.
Get Windows 10 for free To get a free, legal copy of Windows 10 Technical Preview, you’ll need to sign up with your Microsoft account (or create one in the process) for the. The process takes a couple of minutes, and it’s free as well. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll be able to that acts just like an inserted install disk. You’ll want to download the 64 bit version of file in the language you want Windows to run in. The instructions at the Technical Preview page tell you to move the file to a USB drive and then install from there, but you don’t need to–I installed it just fine from the file on my Mac’s hard drive. Now you’ll want to launch VirtualBox.
Click on the blue New star button at the top, and click through the default settings. You’ll first give the newly created virtual environment a name and choose the Windows Type and then Windows 8.1 (64 bit) from the two drop-down menus. Name it something clever, like “Windows 10” if you like. Install the virtual disk on the virtual hard drive Next you’ll need to choose the size of your virtual hard drive. I left this at the default 2 GB setting, but you can increase it by moving the little slider to the right. Avoid a size that hits in the yellow or red zone, or you may have issues with running both OS X and Windows at the same time.
Allow VirtualBox to create a virtual hard drive using the default setting. Simply click on Create, then let it make a VirtualBox Disk Image, or VDI, on the next screen. I let it create a dynamically allocated hard drive, since that was the default option, as well. Give your new hard drive image a name (VirtualBox will choose the name you gave the environment in the first place – it’s ok to let this stand), and then find a size that fits well on your hard drive. I left it at the default 25 GB setting, and then clicked on Create.
You’ll now have a virtual environment to install Windows onto. Click the green Start arrow, and then click on the little folder icon to choose the ISO you downloaded from Microsoft above. You’ll have an option to Capture your mouse within the environment, and then you’ll find out that your host OS (OS X) allows for mouse pointer integration. Just click on the Continue buttons here. Rock the Windows install After you click Next on the Windows Setup window, you’ll need to click Install Now and then accept the license terms. If you didn’t move the ISO to a USB drive, choose the second option when asked what kind of installation you want: Custom Install.
Click Next when you see the Disk 0 Unallocated Space screen, and then click through the rest of the Windows installation prompts. As soon as all the Windows installation fooferah finishes up, you’ll be running Windows 10 on your Mac. You can hit Command-F to go full screen and trick anyone into thinking you’re running a Windows machine (except your Macbook looks way better than most PCs). You can now install Steam or other PC games, or just mess around with the new OS.
There are many ways to get started if you'd like to experiment with Linux. In this article I'am going to explain one using VirtualBox on top of an MS Windows or Mac OSX system. It could also be used on top of an already existing Linux installation, and for experimentation it might be better to use this than the Operating System you already have on your computer. It could also run on Solaris, but who has Solaris on their notebook or desktop computer.
This method is not the simplest, but it will make it easier to understand the system and other options (e.g. Use this process behind the scene. The installation and all the setup can take 1-2 hours.
Much shorter when you do it for a second time. What is Linux, what is Ubuntu A very quick recap: On one hand Linux officially refers to the 'Linux kernel' which is the core of what makes a computer work for you. On the other hand most people use the word 'Linux' to describe a 'Linux Distribution' that includes 10s of thousands of programs, including the Linux kernerl. A 'distribution' is like a package in which some team collected many useful software. Editors, games, databases, web servers, etc.
And of course the kernel. There are many distribution has a list of 'top 100'. In this article we are going to use, one of the popular distributions. Our steps.
Download the ISO image of. Download, install, and configure Download Ubuntu Server ISO image Visit and specifically the page.
Select the most recent one. At the time of this writing it is Ubuntu Server 17.10.1 because it was released in 2017 October. (The 1 is just a sub-release number, not the date.) An ISO image is a single file that looks like a CD-rom from the inside. They can be burned on physical CDs or can be used by other software (e.g.
VirtualBox) to pretend it is a real CD. We'll use the downloaded file in a minute. While we are waiting for it to download, let's do something else: VirtualBox is an application that can run on MS Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux and then it can create Virtual computers. From the inside that virtual computer will look like any other computer.
It will have some memory, CPUs, disk(s), a CD player, a video card with some memory, network card(s). Whatever you decide. The Opearting System installed in it, which we'll refer to as the guest, won't really know it is not running on real hardware. From the point of view of your operating system, the one that you already have on your computer (Most likely some version of MS Windowsor Mac OSX) it is just a directory with a few files in it.
When your guest operating system is running it is allocated a certain amount of memory, CPU, etc. Just like any other application on your system.
If you turn off your guest operating system, then all that is freed up and it will only take up space on your hard-disk. You can remove those files any time, but then you will lose your installation. Download and Install VirtualBox Visit and on the big blue button to get to the page. Select the latest version (for me it was VirtualBox 5.2.8) and the name of your host Operating System. So probably Windows or OSX.
It will download an exe file on Windows or dmg file on OSX. Once the download ended, run these programs, agree to everything you usually agree when you install a program. It is the standar Windows and OSX installation process.
Nothing fancy. Configure VirtualBox A small warning: the different versions of VirtualBox have slightly different UI and Mac OSX and MS Windows versions also differ from each other. The screenshots you see here are from Mac OSX. Most of the screenshots were taken by for our. In your version they might look slightly different. Open VirtualBox - Press the 'new' button on the left Type in any name If the name starts with 'ubu' it will setup the type to Linux and the version to Ubuntu 64-bit automatically.
If you go with a totally different name (e.g. Foobar), then you can slect the Type and Version yourself. Click on Continue. Continue the setup with the values VirtualBox is suggesting for you. You should not worry about the exact values.
Most of these can be changed later on and it is for your experimentatin anyway. So the worst case you go over the installation again and learn it even better. Remember what your guest operating will see as a 'hard disk' is a single file on your host operating system. Memory size: 1024 Mb. If you are tight on memory in your computer, you can go with as low as 256 Mb.
Hard disk: Create a virtual hard disk now. Recommended size is 10 Gb. (It will not really take up that much space.
See next entries.). Hard disk file type: VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image).
Storage on physical hard disk: Dynamically allocated. (So the disk will grow as you need it.).
File location and size: `ubuntu` is fine. When you are done you'll be back to the opening screen of VirtualBox and you'll see your box listed on the left hand side. In this screenshot you see 3 boxes: Insert the CD in the virutal CD driver of VirtualBox You can now check the Settings of your box where you can change most of the parameters. (Don't do that just yet:). If this was real hardware you'd have a physical CD-rom and you'd want to instert it in the CD drive to boot from it. As our machine is virtual, and as we only have an ISO image (has the download finished by now?) we do this in software. We make a small change in the configuration of our VirtualBox image to pretend we have a CD in the drive.
Right-click on the icon of your new server and select 'Settings'. Select the 'Storage' section. Click on the 'empty' CD icon and select the Ubuntu.iso file you have downloaded before. Save this setup. After you saved it you can click on 'Start' to launch the new Linux machine. Install Ubuntu Once you clicked on the 'Start' button of your VirtualBox image, it will 'turn on the computer'. As with real hardware it will look for a storage device that can be booted.
The first one it checks is the CD drive. (The sequence is usually configured in the BIOS of the computer.) As we 'inserted' our CD in the drive the machine will find it and start to boot from it that will step you through the installation process.
Start the installation of Ubuntu - Select the defaults. Your preferred language: English. 'Install Ubuntu Server'. Select a language - English.
Your location: 'Untied States'. Detect keyboard?. Configure the keyboards: English (US).
Keyboard layout: English (US) When you get to the hostname section choose whatever you like. 'ubuntu' is fine for this installation. Type in your full name. Select a username for yourself. Type in a good password. (twice).
Home directory encryption: No. Timezone (it decided Asia/Jerusalem for me): Yes.
Partition disks: select 'Guided - use entire disk' (no LVM). SCSI3. Write the changes to disks?.
Configure the package manager proxy (leave it empty). Upgrades of the system: 'No automatic updates'.
Software selection: don't select anything now. Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk - YES. When the installation is complete, it will unmount the Ubuntu image we setup at the beginning. Continue to reboot: Linux console login screen When you are done installing after the reboot the host screen should look like this: Type in your username and password. You should see a prompt now. You have a working Ubuntu Linux server in a VirtualBox image running on your personal computer.
In the next article we'll continue with some experimentation, but if you are familiar with Linux you can already start using it. One thing I'd mention here is how to run off the machine. Type in (without the '$' that just represents the prompt in our example: $ sudo shutdown -P now It will ask for your password. Once you typed it in it will shut down the Linux server and then it will power off your VirtualBox image.