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How "install Windows 8" with only Mac file systems
Posted: 9. Feb 2013, 19:59
by dr_pompeii
Hello Guys
I have the follow concern
I have a MacBook Pro with Lion 10.8, this machine came with only one hard disk and of course Lion has its own file system .... Therefore I am not able to do a virtualisation for Windows 8.... It use NTFS file system
How I can around this problem?
Thanks in advanced
Re: How "install Windows 8" with only Mac file systems
Posted: 9. Feb 2013, 20:22
by noteirak
If you install Windows 8 in Virtualbox, it will not install over your current system.
Virtualbox will provide a virtual disk on which Windows can set its NTFS file system, and that disk will appear as regular file on your OSX host.
Re: How "install Windows 8" with only Mac file systems
Posted: 9. Feb 2013, 22:37
by dr_pompeii
Hello
Thanks for the reply (Ok, the other post has been blocked)
If you install Windows 8 in Virtualbox, it will not install over your current system.
Yes I know about the italic part, but I remember in 2010 that VirtualBox asked for a special partition to match for the required OS to be virtualised....
Of course, now we are in 2013
Thats why I wrote the post... I had Windows with NTFS and FAT32 and I couldn't virtualise Ubuntu.... Thats I was worry with Mac to virtualise Windows 8, due the different file systems...
Virtualbox will provide a virtual disk on which Windows can set its NTFS file system, and that disk will appear as regular file on your OSX host.
Mmmm, lets see....
If I have some issue I will create a new thread, I need in other PC with Linux virtualise Windows 8 too...
Thanks a lot for your time...