I just found the Apple Insider story linked above. I did this very installation last week; Win7 beta installed in Virtual Box. Virtual Box is from Sun, a virtual machine to run (whatever) intel operating systems on a Mac. I own Parallels, the first Mac virtual machine for running windoze on yr Mac. I bought Parallels 2, then upgraded to 3. They are trying to sell me the upgrade to 4 for another $50 but I think I'll pass.
VM Ware has a competing product, Fusion, which gets better reviews than Parallels, altho Parallels supposedly will run from a Boot Camp installation. I cannot get Boot Camp to finish an install.
Virtual Box is free and runs quite well, but does not support my ProBook graphics nearly as well as Parallels. VirtualBox cannot detect the native resolution on this GeForce 8600m.
So, Win 7 is actually pretty nice. I like it. Much cleaner and faster than XP.
04 February 2009
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