Platform virtualization (the process of running a second operating system inside a virtual environment on your computer) has been on my mind a lot lately, has it been on yours? If you have made a shift recently from Windows to Mac you may have wondered at one point if you could find a way to use any of your old Windows software.
This article is focuses on the experience of running Windows Vista as a guest operating system on a Mac OS X host. The host system is a Unibody MacBook with the following specifications:
Core 2 Duo P7350 2GHz
2GB DDR3 1066 RAM
256MB Nvidia Geforce 9400m (Shared Memory)
500GB 5400 RPM HDD
When talking about virtualization I'll be referring to the Virtual Machine (VM) a lot. This is the virtual PC that will be running the guest OS. The default setup uses about half of your host computer's CPU and RAM. That is how we will be configuring our VMs for this test.
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