If you want to try Windows 7 out, but you don't want to wipe your current operating system from your system, then perhaps you want to try Sun's VirtualBox virtualization software.

To get a quick idea of where we're headed, check out the video above, which demonstrates my Windows 7 system running OS X and Ubuntu through VirtualBox.

In VirtualBox create a new virtual machine, choose Windows / Windows 7 as the type. During the initial installation process choose to create a virtual disk.

How to Install Windows 8 on VirtualBox Note: This guide is written for Windows 8 Developer Preview and installed on a Dell Studio 1555 Laptop running Windows 7 64-bit version using VirtualBox 4.1. ...

VirtualBox is flexible enough to handle many types of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations. If you need to run a 32-bit version of XP in a 64-bit host, you can do that without any problems.

The Windows 8 beta is here. This is what you need to know to run it in a virtual machine in VirtualBox.

Jack Wallen shows you the extra steps you need to take to get Windows 11 running as a virtual guest on VirtualBox.

Using a program called VirtualBox and the evaluation version of Windows 8 Enterprise, you can try out the new OS for free, without disturbing your current operating system.

To test out how well Windows 7 works on a virtualized system, I decided to use Sun’s VirtualBox software. While there are, of course, other virtualization programs out there, such as VMware’s ...