I have both VMware Fusion & Virtual Box in mind to install a Windows 7 on my mac … any suggestions as to which would be best to use over the other?
any suggestions would be appreciated before I delve into the wonderful world of Mac/Windows
I use VirtualBox on my Linux station to run a variety of OSs. I think VMware is a good choice for OS X.
Thanks,
I ended up using VMware for the installation.
I’m taking a course on Unix and the wonders therein in January, so I think using VirtualBox then would be the best idea…looking forward to it!
I run all my stuff on VMware Fusion on the Mac. A couple of Windows VMs, 4 different linux distros, and a couple of Mac OS X VMs too.
The advantage of VMware is that you can take a virtual machine from your laptop and put it on another host (like a big linux server) and vice-versa.
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The advantage of VMware is that you can take a virtual machine from your laptop and put it on another host (like a big linux server) and vice-versa.[/quote]
That is way cool, MiG. 
On my Slackware 13.37 box at the moment I’m running Debian 6.0, FreeBSD 9.0 RC1, and CentOS 6.0 in VirtualBox. I’m also running OpenBSD 5.0 in Qemu because when I tried to install it in vbox it segfaulted.
I’ve got a Quadcore6600 running Proxmox, VMs for Win2K, XP, Ubuntu 10.04, and a hotspot router. To tell the truth I haven’t even looked at it for 4 months or so, let alone used it.
Just went back to Parallels on the Macbook rather than upgrade VMware. Seems to work better, but truthfully i almost never use it either. Seems a waste of a perfectly good Mac to run Windows on it.
The only reason I run a dual boot of Slackware/XP Pro is that some M$ games do not run that well in Wine (also I need windows for itunes). My 8 year old rarely boots into Slackware (sigh). 
I ended up taking Windows off my mac … I have no use for Windows … I don’t know what I was thinking…just curious about the install I suppose…come January I will definitely install vmware for whatever my Linux course throws at me (i’m excited!)
Have a spare computer around the house ? Try ESXi on a usb stick and load your vm’s on the main drive…