Virtualization products like VMWare, VirtualBox and Parallels are apps
which emulate the bare hardware of a physical PC. So, in theory, you
launch one of those and you'll get a basic PC ready to do your bidding.
Most people use them to load Windows on but you can load an OS that
normally will run on a generic PC clone. The 'virtual' machine is only
as accessible as the OS normally would be on real hardware. Of course
there is some overhead so things won't run 100% the speed that they
would on dedicated hardware, but for most things that isn't an issue.
For example, if you had a virtual windows machine running Office, and
you went to save a file. Office would pass the data to Windows to write
to the disk but really the Windows code would be writing to what seems
like a disk drive which is actually the virtual machine emulator which
writes to a file on OSX. That little bit of redirection makes everything
work but costs some CPU. VirtualBox is free but the GUI isn't accessible
with Voiceover, but you can control it fully from the terminal by typing
commands. VMWare is accessible as is but costs a few bucks (usually
about $60 unless there is a special running). Parallels is not free and
is also not accessible so you can ignore it. Also, it's Mac only while
virtual machines made with VMWare can also run under VMWare Player on
Windows and Linux. When I say accessible, that means the virtual machine
app itself where you tell how much memory to give to the virtual PC and
such. As previously mentioned, Windows under VMWare, for instance, will
be just as accessible (or not) as it would be running on a real Dell
box. If you must have every last bit of speed you can set up bootcamp
which boots your Mac into Windows so Windows has direct access to the
hardware. I haven't tried this but reviews I've read said that the
current MacBooks make a nice high-end windows laptop. The downside is
you have to do some setup to boot in either Mac or Windows 'mode' and
switching from one to the other requires a reboot. With virtual machines
they are just an app you launch, use and quit. So you can, for example,
copy paste from your AppleMail into a Windows app or vice versa. Things
are also a bit more contained because the virtual machine hard drive is
just a file on the OSX side. So if you got some nasty Windows virus that
formatted your hard drive, all it could touch is that virtual hard
drive, not your entire Mac drive.
CB
On 12/29/13 4:00 PM, Daniel Hawkins wrote:
Really?! Lately what I heard the virtual apps were not accessible.
That’s why I did a Dualboot to Windows 7 on my Mac.
I guess I’m going to look up Fusion. Is Parallel accessible too?
My goal is to have Windows 7, and Windows 8.1 and a Linux or two.
Does anyone have a link about everything about accessabilty for these
virtual app?
Thanks!
Daniel Hawkins
- Posted from my Macbook Pro
2012 15in. Macbook Pro
2.3 Quad-core i7
4GB DDR3
500GB HDD
Dual Boot:
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit
On Dec 29, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Littlefield, Tyler <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Technically it pretty much allows you to install any OS you want.
Windows is the most widely used, but it's also useful for running
linux/bsd instances.
On 12/29/2013 2:32 PM, Phil Halton wrote:
Fusion is a virtualization program that will let you install and run
Windows on your Mac is completely accessible. the other one that
isn't is called parallels.
Sent from my IPhone
On Dec 29, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Daniel Hawkins
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello all,
I’m very new to list, and still very new to screen readers and Macs.
I was wondering what is VMFusion? Is a virtual program for Windows?
From what I can understand, I thought emulators or virtual programs
is not accessible? Or is there an solution?
Thanks!
Daniel Hawkins
- Posted from my Macbook Pro
2012 15in. Macbook Pro
2.3 Quad-core i7
4GB DDR3
500GB HDD
Dual Boot:
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit
On Dec 29, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Littlefield, Tyler
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
oooo thanks a ton for these links, that's awesome.
Also: virtualbox is just a virtualization solution. I have 16 gb
ram, so I figured I'd give 4 of that to a bsd box so I could test
my libraries and that on BSD as well.
HTH:
On 12/29/2013 9:37 AM, Regina Alvarado wrote:
What do you do with a virtual box? Curious is all.
reggie and Allegra
On Dec 29, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Georgina Joyce <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html
http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/create-virtualbox-vm-from-the-command-line.html
http://nakkaya.com/2012/08/30/create-manage-virtualBox-vms-from-the-command-line/
Gena
On 29 Dec 2013, at 02:59, Alex Hall <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That is very true, and a good point. Unfortunately, I was never
able to find any tutorials or even manuals for getting started
with the command line interface to Virtualbox. Still, it is
definitely worth looking into.
On Dec 28, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I thought Virtualbox was controllable through the terminal so
you don't have to use the GUI. From the manual:
"VBoxManage is the command-line interface to VirtualBox. With
it, you can completely control VirtualBox from the command line
of your host operating system. VBoxManage supports all the
features that the graphical user interface gives you access to,
but it supports a lot more than that. It exposes really all the
features of the virtualization engine, even those that cannot
(yet) be accessed from the GUI."
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html
It's free so why not give it a try.
CB
On 12/28/13 2:06 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Fusion is $60 last I checked, at least for a personal license.
No, virtualbox is not at all accessible. Someone once posted a
quick tutorial on using it to set up a VM on Windows which
you'd then import to the Mac. Still, when I gave it a try,
audio in the vm was extremely low and nothing I did would
bring it up. I find Fusion to be better, plus, of course, the
preferences and other settings are accessible.
On Dec 28, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Littlefield, Tyler
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
hello:
I had a quick question. I don't have the $100 something for
vmware fusion, but I wanted to install BSD on my IMac. Anyone
know if virtualbox is accessible, or if there are other choices?
Thanks,
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