Re: [MBZ] OT iMac VirtualBox for WinXP

2020-12-12 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
The latest we have is Catalina, which is 10.14, and they're now pushing 10.15 IIRC. I'm running either El Capitan, 10.11, or High Sierra, 10.13 depending on which system you're talking about. To talk to some of our older Airport gear we need 10.6, for which you cannot use VMware. That's what

Re: [MBZ] OT iMac VirtualBox for WinXP

2020-12-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
No question VMware is by far the industry standard and easiest to use, but of course there’s a price to be paid for that. I’ve worked with VMware professionally and in comparison to the consumer grade stuff I prefer VirtualBox. -D > On Dec 12, 2020, at 12:25 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes >

Re: [MBZ] OT iMac VirtualBox for WinXP

2020-12-12 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
I am using VMware, VirtualBox, and Qemu, all for different things. VMware is clearly the most professional of them, but it costs money. (Boss paid for it, I use it for work.) Which Mac OS are you going to run? -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] OT iMac VirtualBox for WinXP

2020-12-12 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Excellent. I’ll be giving it a whirl next coupla days. It’s so nice outside today I need to get outside work done on the vast estate, cars, etc. --FT Sent from iPhone > On Dec 12, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > Nothing special going on. Just run the VB installer,

Re: [MBZ] OT iMac VirtualBox for WinXP

2020-12-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
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

[MBZ] OT iMac VirtualBox for WinXP

2020-12-12 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
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