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How to Run Windows or Linux on your Intel powered Mac?
Have you ever wanted to run
Windows or Linux applications on your Mac? Well if you have an Intel powered Mac
running a Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later operating system you can run a complete
Windows or Linux operation system in parallel while still running your Mac
operating system.
What you need to do is install
the Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac
software on your system. To successfully run Parallels Desktop on your Mac you
must have the following:-
Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later. To check what version of
Mac OS X you have got, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu
in the menu bar.
An Intel-powered Core™ Duo or Core™ Solo Mac® Mini,
iMac®, MacBook™, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro.
A minimum of 768MB of RAM but 1GB is recommended.
About 200 MB of hard disk space on the boot volume
for Parallels Desktop installation.
Sufficient space on your hard disks to allocate to the virtual machines, i.e. 15 GB of hard disk space is recommended for
each virtual machine.
Installing Parallels
Desktop is very easy. When it is installed you can then use it to install what
it calls the Guest operation systems i.e. the other operating system such as
Windows XP or Vista or Linux that you want to run at the
same time as your Mac operating system. You can install any of the Windows
operating systems but there is a Windows Express Installation Assistant
especially for Windows XP and Windows Vista. You can also install using Typical
or Custom installation settings. During the installation process you will have
to insert the CD or DVD containing the Operating System software you want
installed.
When the Guest operating system
is installed it will run in a Window on your Mac screen. When you launch an
application in the virtual machine with Windows installed, the application's
icon appears in the Dock by default. Right-click (Control-click) the
applications icon in the Dock, and select Keep in Dock. In this way even
when the virtual machine is stopped, the application icon will remain in the
Dock. If you click the Windows application's icon in the Dock it launches the
virtual machine and then the Windows application.
Parallels Desktop includes
specially developed tools that help you use your virtual machines in the most
comfortable and efficient way.
To exchange files between the Mac
OS X and your Windows virtual machine, you can set up one or more shared
folders that will be visible to both operating systems.
In the virtual machine you can
open Mac OS X applications. The list of Parallels Shared Applications is
created during the installation of Parallels Tools. The list of your Mac
applications is available when you choose All Programs -> Parallels
Shared Applications from the Windows Start menu.
So now all those Windows
applications or game you want to use can now be run on you Mac.
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