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The VGA driver shipped with and installed by the VirtualBox Guest Additions was (of course) compatible with my current Windows 7 installation but apparently not with Windows 10.
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I kind of was expecting to run into trouble.Īfter performing a requirements check, the Windows 10 Upgrade application was complaining that my computer wasn’t meeting the hardware requirements for Windows 10, in particular the VirtualBox (virtual) graphics adapter which was accused of not being compatible with Windows 10. Unfortunately, the automatic upgrade failed. I was curious about trying out the upgrade in a VM before rolling it out to any other family members' computers (I don’t really enjoy spending endless nights with my mother-in-law’s notebook…). Since Microsoft announced their free Windows 10 upgrade policy for existing users, the system has more or less pestering me with “get your copy of Windows 10” messages. So far I was running a Windows 7 guest on a OS X host. Therefore, I have migrated my physical Windows box into a VM a long time ago I’ve been using Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion in the past but made the move to VirtualBox about 2 years ago.
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I can get most of my daily business done on any OS but I am still in the need of using some tax/finance software that is only available for Windows.
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I have been using virtual machine installations of the Windows operating system ever since I made the switch from Windows to Linux when I was attending university (and I have since switched to a Mac OS X setup that has been serving me very well for the past 12 years).