Check posts by Andre da Costa about dual booting. Your new computers should come with Windows 10 so you will need to get Windows 7 to install. I got Window 7 off eBay when the free upgrade was offered as my laptops were using Vista. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Go ahead and do so. As far as it knows, you're installing from a CD. Congratulations, you have a new virtual machine. Now you're ready to install the operating system.
Note: Unless you're running a volume-licensed version of Windows, you need a separate license for Windows running inside a virtual machine. Because of this, you can set up your virtual machine environment the same way you would set up a normal machine. So there is a better way for client operating systems: Microsoft Virtual PC. Click Next at the Before You Begin screen.
Leave the default location. Click Next. If you are using these Windows versions, you don't need to install other VM programs.
As for VirtualBox and VMware, they are famous virtual machine programs. The former is totally open-source free while the latter is paid software. You can choose a VM program according to you needs. Running virtual machines will generate a lot of disk fragmentation. Putting the VM file and other program files in the same partition will affect the running speed.
In addition, some operations like disk defragmentation cannot be performed on the partition storing the virtual machine, because that may cause the virtual machine to fail virtual machine files are corrupted.
Therefore, I recommend you to create a partition dedicated to the virtual machine Windows 7. To do that, you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard. This software can complete this job well. Here is the guide:. Free Download. Launch this software and go to its main interface.
Step 2: In the pop-up window, drag the slider to choose how much size you want to shrink and click OK to continue.
0コメント