When you’re finished, quit VirtualBox like any other application and Windows 10 will shut down.

When setup is finished, Windows 10 will be running in VirtualBox, right on your Mac – yes this is a full featured version of Windows.

Go through the standard Windows 10 installation experience, this can take a little while but eventually you’ll create a user account, select a user name, and do some basic Windows configuration.

In a moment or two you’ll be in the Windows 10 installer, select your language and click “Next”.

Since there is no drive or OS installed yet, you will be asked to choose a virtual optical disk, click on the Folder icon and choose the Windows 10 ISO you downloaded earlier, then click “Start”.

Back at the primary VirtualBox screen, choose “Start” to boot the new Windows 10 volume.

Select to create a new virtual hard drive, then choose Continue again.

Name the new virtual machine “Windows 10 VM” (or something equally obvious), select “Microsoft Windows” as the type and choose “Windows 10” as the version, then choose Continue.

Open VirtualBox and click on the “New” button to build a new virtual machine.

Now that you’ve got the software components necessary to run Windows 10 in a virtual machine, let’s run through the installation process: Essentially this means you can run Windows 10 in Mac OS X (High Sierra, Yosemite, Mavericks, you name it), Windows 7, or even Linux, using the exact same software and instructions, nifty huh? How to Run Windows 10 on Mac with VirtualBox for Mac OS X

A reasonably speedy computer with sufficient RAM and CPU (the newer the better, as usual)Ī quick side note: VirtualBox is cross platform compatible, and while we’re demonstrating installing Windows 10 in Mac OS Catalina, macOS Mojave, MacOS Sierra, Mac OS X High Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite here, you can actually run through this exact tutorial on any other major operating system as well outside of the Mac.

At least 8GB of disk space to install Windows into the virtual machine.

Download Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft (free) – put this somewhere easy to locate, like the Mac Desktop ( here and here are additional Windows 10 ISO links from MSFT if needed).

Download VirtualBox from Oracle (free) – install this as like any other app.

The rest is just a matter of following the simple instructions, and soon you’ll have Windows running in MacOS X in no time.

To get started, you’ll first need to download Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and get VirtualBox. Setting up Windows 10 to run on the Mac is quite simple and requirements are basic enough, though the more resources the computer has the better the overall experience will be.

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