Nothing special going on. Just run the VB installer, be sure to download the add-ons for it, too, and then spin up a VM and install your Windows instance. Pretty straightforward.
I’ve never been enamored of Parallels. It seems fiddly to work with and as I recall was nowhere near as simple to set up and run VMs on as VirtualBox. -D > On Dec 12, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I bought a 2009 24" iMac yesterday for $230 to use for my laser cutter > computer. 640GB HDD, 8GB of memory, processor looks to be what you would > expect from a 2009 machine (I forget what it is, a single processor at like > 2.3GHz). I guess it is an OK machine, seems to work OK, the marketing outfit > I got it from was using it for graphics design. > > I'm going to get an app called Lightburn to run the laser. I also have a > bunch of design apps and stuff that run on WinXP (and maybe some later > version of Winders, I don't know) that I was using on a WinXP box to run the > laser and my CNC machine, so I want to have those too. > > I read the discussion before about VirtualBox, seems like it might be the > thing to use to set up a WinXP VM, install the Win apps on it, then use the > MacOS to run my laser, so everything will be available for design, driving > the machine, etc. I have some other VM software, Parallels, on another iMac, > it is kind of a PITA as the version I have will only run on an old version of > MacOS, which is fine as that machine doesn't need the latest/greatest, > upgrades cost $$. > > Is there anything I need to know before setting this iMac up? I guess it is > fairly straightforward to install VB then WinXP? Any gotchas with WinXP on > the VB side? > > -- > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
