

Among other things, you’ll be able to properly go to full screen mode.

This will allow interaction between the host and the VM client.


Note that I used a “dynamically allocated” disk rather than “fixed size” to not waste disk space unnecessarily. You can find the basic step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing VirtualBox and Windows here.It runs on MacOS, Windows, and Linux, and in principle, most of what’s below is independent of the host OS, but these specific notes were used to install it on a two Macs (2011 iMac, OSX 10.13. VirtualBox is a free alternative to Parallels or VMWare that seems to have most of the same functionality, but takes a little more user intervention to get set up and make run properly. A walk through for doing this can be found here. In that video, I set the memory to 4 Gb, which can be marginal for some things, If you have enough memory, you should set it to at least 6 Gb or preferably 8 Gb. Note: some of the longer waits have been edited down in length. A video walk through of this installation can be found here, starting from scratch.
