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This allows you to choose whether to log into Windows or macOS every time you boot your Mac-a process known as dual-booting.

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The Boot Camp Assistant app sets aside a portion of your hard drive to install Windows.

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While the VirtualBox software itself is free, you may need to license your copy of Windows installed in the VM if you want to use it long-term.Д«oot Camp is a free utility that comes with your Mac that allows you to run Windows alongside macOS. Making the process even harder, VirtualBox doesnвЂ™t offer any sort of technical support to users, so youвЂ™ll have to find help in the free guides on its website or in the user forums.

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Read more: How to Use VirtualBox: User's Guide Creating a new virtual machine is much more time-consuming than in Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion Player, and youвЂ™ll need to know details such as the amount of RAM, CPU cores, and hard drive space to allocate to your VM. The VirtualBox interface can be intimidating, as it shows a lot of technical details and specifications without many tips or descriptions for beginners. The interface looks pretty dated and isnвЂ™t as streamlined as other virtual machine software, though VirtualBox has made some improvements that give it more polish. VirtualBox supports a great number of guest operating systems going all the way back to Windows 98, and you can even run your own servers. ItвЂ™s designed with developers and IT professionals in mind, so VirtualBox provides you with a great deal of control over your virtual environments.

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It's only like $25 or $50 or something to upgrade from an older version.VirtualBox is a free and open source virtual machine software from Oracle. I could treat a Windows VM window in Parallels as if it were a Remote Desktop window. Parallels simply worked better than VMware for me (and miles better than VirtualBox in both UI and performance). In VMware, it has a 'gaming mode' that accelerates the mouse cursor correctly, matching 1:1 movement with how it is on the Mac desktop, but it locked the cursor in the VM window, requiring me to press a key combination to unlock the cursor any time I wanted it back on the Mac side. I could drag my mouse cursor from my Mac desktop to the Windows desktop and back out, seamlessly, without any lag, delays, or the cursor no longer matching 1:1 to my movement. I then tried Parallels, and was really impressed at how much better it worked. I tried VirtualBox, and performance & overall experience was pretty bad (vs. Mostly mouse cursor tracking wasn't 1:1 with VMware in a way that I was expecting. I use to only use VMware, but wanted to try other stuff due to some interface and performance issues I was having with it.

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