Don’t worry–the image will get bigger over time–it won’t take ~9.9 GB immediately! Otherwise, find the Hard Disk menu item toward the bottom of the pane, and click “Create other disk image…” For size, make it 10000 MB, as a compressed qcow. Now, if you are going to follow B of Step 8, then SKIP THIS STEP. In the hardware tab, give the virtual machine *at least* 256 MB RAM. You can title the machine after any computer model you wish–you could even call it “XP PowerBook” if you wanted to, and for the guest OS, select Windows XP, and click OK. An alias to Applications is provided with instructions in the disk image. Install Q by opening the disk image, and by dragging Q into the Applications folder. Download Q from the Internet and mount the disk image that appears either in the Downloads folder or the Desktop (if OS X doesn’t mount it for you.) 🙂 It’s strongly recommended for a halfway-good experience, that you have a G4. An original iBook clamshell, even if it’s loaded with RAM, probably just won’t make the cut–as things will be incredibly slow. However, BEFORE READING ON, you *must* have a fast enough processor to even emulate Windows XP.

You will need, however, a legal copy of Windows XP, which hopefully you already own. You can legally and freely download an open source application called Q based on qemu. Best of all, you do not need Virtual PC either. Many new and/or novice Mac users that get a G3, G4, or G5 Mac for the first time (but may be very experienced Windows power users) or people who wish to run Windows on their Mac like a modern model, ask the question: Can Windows run on a Mac?

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