{"id":166632164,"date":"2011-04-19T00:42:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/mac-tip-3-use-virtualbox"},"modified":"2011-04-19T00:42:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:42:05","slug":"mac-tip-3-use-virtualbox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/mac-tip-3-use-virtualbox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Tip #3 &#8211; Use VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using VirtualBox for a while to run Windows on my Mac. It works great.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font:12px Helvetica;\"><img alt=\"virtualbox.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font:12px Helvetica;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font:12px Helvetica;\">It is not the &quot;cleanest&quot; user interface. \u00a0You have to setup, basically a new computer, and you have to buy a copy of Windows, but it works great. \u00a0Just load up the Virtual Machine and it is like you have another computer. \u00a0I know so other software packages like VMWare etc allow you to launch application from within OS X, but I don&#039;t use that many applications on the Windows side. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font:12px Helvetica;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font:12px Helvetica;\">If you find yourself consistently, but not not overwhelmingly needing to run Windows only apps, give VirtualBox a try. \u00a0It is free (aside from the cost of Windows) and it works quite well. \u00a0Just make sure you have enough ram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font:12px Helvetica;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font:12px Helvetica;\">-updated- Sometimes you can get some random errors, but as <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org\/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=17995\">this forum post explains<\/a>, just reinstall VirtualBox, your virtual machines are untouched.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using VirtualBox for a while to run Windows on my Mac. It works great. It is not the &#8220;cleanest&#8221; user interface. You have to setup, basically a new computer, and you have to buy a copy of Windows, but it works great. Just load up the Vi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166632164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166632164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166632164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166632164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}