Running Windows on the iMac is something I was always planning on, since Windows pays the bills I will always need it somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 I had always assumed that I would be using Boot Camp to do just that and just be living with the inconvenience of restarting each time.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured that this way would work just fine, but most importantly it was free, and I’m incredibly cheap when it comes to this stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I almost started that process, but decided at the last to check around to see what I could find in the virtualization area for this purpose.\u00c2\u00a0 Man, am I ever glad I did.\u00c2\u00a0 I stumbled onto Sun Virtualbox<\/a>, a free VM engine that runs on OSX very very nicely.\u00c2\u00a0 So nicely in fact that after I had set up a quick XP VM I found that I could run it in a Spaces desktop in full screen mode, and it’s just dandy.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s something magical about alt-tabbing, er cmd-tabbing through the open apps and sliding right into a windows desktop.\u00c2\u00a0 I still need to get the work VPN installed there and a few other things, but man, this is the real thing folks.<\/p>\n Speaking of Spaces, I like this feature so much that I have actually installed Dexpot<\/a> on the Vista box at work so I can have a similar experience. It’s not as smooth as I would like, I particularly miss the full cmd-tab list of open windows and just switching to that desktop when I select it, but it’s pretty good so far.<\/p>\n Now, something for the non-geeks, suitably distracting I hope.<\/p>\n Look, a pony!<\/p>\n Please forgive the raw geek post.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have no idea what a virtual machine is, just skip to the picture of the pony at the bottom. It’s been a few months now since Nikki got me my first Mac, … Continue reading ![\"Sleeping](\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cute-sleeping-pony-300x205.jpg\" "\\"Sleeping")
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