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I am searching for a virtual machine that will allow me to install windows 7 on an iMac I want to buy, that will allow me to use paint shop pro 9 and view/use the .psp files the program uses.

I have been unable to get a concrete yes or no for many vm's including parallels, fusion, winebottler, etc

I do not want to buy the iMac and a vm and install windows only to find I still cannot run the program.

apple care today told me if I can run it on my windows 7 pc I can run it on an iMac in a vm with no problem. sounds too simple to be true. and no one else has told me that.

Anyone that can offer an assistance on this? I am probably way out of my league trying something like virtualbox, since I am not geeky enough, lol, to understand it. (meant it best possible way of course)

AFAIK Paint Shop Pro is a generic Win32/WinGDI app, and hence should work fine in a VM, but nobody is going to give you any guarantees.

I can tell you Paint Shop Pro X7 runs on a WIndows 7 guest.

thanks

psp 7? or a newer version? I use 9 so I know there have been a bunch since then and is this on virtualbox or another vm?

qwho wrote:thanks

psp 7? or a newer version? I use 9 so I know there have been a bunch since then and is this on virtualbox or another vm?

X7 is the latest version. Yes in VirtualBox.

qwho wrote:I use 9 so I know there have been a bunch since then

Adding new software features to a guest app doesn't make any difference to VirtualBox.

You seem not to comprehend what VirtualBox is: it's a hardware simulator, pure and simple. Specifically, it simulates the hardware of a generic PC. The operating system run on that hardware is not simulated, it's the real thing. So, any software capable of being run on that operating system will also run in VirtualBox, because VirtualBox is just another PC. The only exceptions are if the app has specific requirements of the hardware. Mostly that means high frame rate or hi-res video games, DVD Video players etc. A paint program doesn't have abnormal requirements - the painting involved is no more stressful that what the OS itself does.