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		Aditya Dada Aditya Dada has been with sun since 2001. He currently works with the Software Quality Engineering Group on Glassfish ensuring quality for Deployment and Application Client Container. He is also one of the architects for automation frameworks used by various teams working on Sun Java Systems Application Server. Along with making test applications, he works on discovering use of new tools, and improving automation. He has a Master in Engineering Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University. Aditya Dada's blog Using Sun's Virtualization software xVM VirtualBox on MacbookPro for Windows 7 Beta Posted by aditya_dada on February 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM PST I got a new Intel-based MacBook Pro the other day and decided to try out Sun's xVM VirtualBox software on Mac OSX to install Windows 7 Beta. Here are the steps I followed: Download the software from http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html#mac. Select the default settings while installing. Download the new windows 7 Beta from the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx and create a boot DVD disk from the iso image. Click on the new icon on the VirtualBox window to create a new VM. A Wizard will start that will guide you through the simple setup. Select OS Wizard will start. Select Windows 7 and give a name of your choice. E.g. Windows7Beta Select RAM for your OS. I gave 1024MB. Select HDD. Here, you will need to create a new HDD partition that will host the new OS that you're installing. Click on the "New" button to launch the wizard. Select size of the virtual hard disk that you'd like to allocate for the OS. I gave 30 GB to dynamically growing disk meaning that the disk allocation will start small and grow to a max of 30 GB if needed. Click Finish. You will see a new VM for the OS in the main window Double click the newly created VM. Insert the Boot disk for DVD you created earlier The new VM will guide you through the setup using the normal installation wizards. I found VirtualBox extremely easy and intuitive to use. » Login or register to post comments 335 visits Printer-friendly version Related Topics >> Virtual Machine Comments Comments are listed in date ascending order (oldest first)		Categories Testing Java Enterprise Open Source Virtual Machine Archives February 2009 May 2008 July 2006 January 2006 Recent Entries Using Sun's Virtualization software xVM VirtualBox on MacbookPro for Windows 7 Beta Selenium-ANT-TestNG (SAT) Framework The Future of Testing