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Running Mac OS X And Windows Side By Side
Mar 13, 2025
A quick demo of running Virtual Box.
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hey everyone today I'm going to be
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showing you how you can easily run
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Windows apps side by side with your Mac
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apps using virtual box so there are
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other Solutions out there to this uh you
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could do Boot Camp or Parallels or
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VMware things like that but those can
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often end up being costly Solutions and
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uh you know there's a better way and
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plus with boot camp you cannot run
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Windows and OS 10 at the same time so
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the better way is virtual box now
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virtual box is very similar to parallels
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of VMware but the main difference is
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that it's free and free is always better
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right so to get this all you need to do
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is open up your favorite web browser and
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go to virtualbox.org and then on your
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the downloads page you can find all the
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downloads you need um right there is the
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one for Intel Max
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so you're going to download this and
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you're going to install it it's fairly
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typical process then from there you can
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search for virtual box and
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Spotlight and open it up so in Virtual
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box you're going to see this interface
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and it's pretty simple now what you're
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going to want to do you're going to need
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to have a copy of Windows on hand to do
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this and you can have pretty much any
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version of Windows and it will work with
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it so all you need to do is click new up
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at the top and you're going to get this
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virtual machine Wizard and it's going to
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help you set up a new virtual machine so
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you're going to hit continue and you're
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going to put in the name of your OS so
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in this case I'm going to call it XP and
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you can see it has it defaulted to
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Microsoft Windows and XP now you can
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choose 3.1 all the way up through
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Windows 7
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64-bit so you get a lot of different
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things you can do so you hit continue
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now you can change your Ram size and I'm
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going to set it up to 256
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and now you can create a new virtual
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hard disk and then you can just hit
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continue
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continue and continue again you can
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pretty much leave all the defaults the
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exact same I'm going to set this to V
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3.8 gigs so
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here and I'm going to hit
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done so you can see here it gives you a
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summary of how your virtual machine is
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going to look and you can click done
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there
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now at this point you're going to want
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to put it in your installation disc for
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whatever operating system you are
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planning to put on here so in my case it
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would be Windows XP so I'm just going to
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slide my copy of Windows XP in now and
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it should show up on the desktop any
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second so you can see here right on the
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desktop it says win XP Home G1 so that
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is your disc in there and now once that
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shows up you got to make sure that's up
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there first you can click Start and it's
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going to open the first First Run Wizard
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so you can hit continue and you can see
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here that it says my Host Drive selected
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and it's my DVD drive and you'll want
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that selected assuming you have a disc
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in Click continue and then hit
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done now what it's going to do here is
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it's just going to start the virtual
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machine it's going to go through your
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normal process like a typical
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computer and you can see here that
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Windows XP startup is now running so now
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the setup will continue just like it
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normally would and it's going to load
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all the files that it needs to load for
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Windows to start and it's just going to
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proceed on like a typical installation
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of windows so once you have your
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operating system installed you can just
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select it and click Start and it will
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boot up into whatever operating system
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you
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choose so in this case we're running
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Windows XP Home Edition right here and
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you can see It'll boot up just like any
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normal Windows operating system would
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so now you can see you have Windows
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running right alongside Mac OS 10 now if
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you want even more features with your
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operating system to make it more of a
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seamless experience you can go up to the
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devices menu and click install guest
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editions what'll happen now is you'll
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see something pop up here where you can
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install these guest editions now what
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these do is they let you integrate your
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windows environment more seamlessly with
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Mac OS 10 and I definitely recommend
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this cuz this does help things out a lot
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so you can see there it finished and
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I'll just
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reboot now once my operating system is
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rebooted here now I can go up into the
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machine Tab and I can switch to seamless
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mode and I I'll just hit switch and what
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it's going to do now is it's going to
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integrate Windows into my OS 10
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environment now it doesn't look you know
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the best you've got your task bar kind
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of right above your dock here um but I
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can hide the dock make it look a little
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bit better let's go out of seamless mode
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and back into
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it you can see it looks a little bit
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better then I can bring back up my dock
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uh things like that so now I'm running
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pretty much Windows XP and Os 10 at this
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exact same time so I can click on the
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start menu open up my computer and you
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can see I have you know that open here
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and then I could also be in safari
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browsing around doing whatever I wanted
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so you can see here I can run Mac OS 10
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and Windows XP side by side right in the
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same thing and I don't have to be
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switching back and forth between you
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know different operating systems booting
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in between them like you would with Boot
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Camp or even you know switching back
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into back and forth between programs
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like parallels or VMware and which cost
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money so you can see this is a very
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seamless experience and it works very
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well um you know it's not it's a little
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bit glitchy once in a while with as I
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showed you before with the dock and the
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taskbar um but overall it does work very
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nicely and you can switch back and forth
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between Mac OS 10 applications and
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windows applications just like that so
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you can see I can you know open up
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whatever I want here and then open up
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something on the Mac side as well and
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they'll both work together so this is a
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very handy thing and if you're you know
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recently switching from PCS to Max you
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might still want some of your windows
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applications to uh run but you know you
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rather use Mac OS 10 but there's still
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some stuff you're Clinging On to so this
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is a very nice way to kind of integrate
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both experiences and to make it easier
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when you're switching so I hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching
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