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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 12:29 AM
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VirtualBox 3.1.4 became available 12 Feb
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-21-10 10:55 PM
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1. what is it? nt
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-23-10 12:11 AM
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2. VirtualBox is a free program that allows you to run other operating systems in emulated hardware
inside a window in your main program

So, for example, my usual machine runs Snow Leopard, but suppose I want to try out Ubuntu: I can download a dmg of the LiveCD and define a virtual machine that boots from the dmg with a certain amount of hard drive space allocated to the virtual machine; if I want to explore further, I do install the OS from the dmg to the virtual hard drive in the same way I could install from a physical LiveCD to a physical hard drive -- and so on

It's not perfect but much of what you can do on a real machine you can also do in the emulator.
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-23-10 05:48 PM
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3. thanks for the info. nt
:hi:
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