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HDD is a disk image format created using Parallels, the macOS virtual machine application.

HDD: No, it isn't your hard disk drive.

You also have Windows Virtualbox image options such as Windows 98 SE, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1, along with some Windows Server images too. You'll find Linux VDIs for popular distros, including Debian, Fedora, FreeNAS, Lint, and Ubuntu.

VHD: VHD is Microsoft's virtual disk image container. Sysprobes offers a mixture of Linux and Windows Virtualbox images for download.

VMDK: VMDK was the virtual disk image container of VMware but is now an open standard that almost all virtual machine applications can use.

However, VirtualBox virtual disk images are far from the only virtual machine disk image type. VDIs are the virtual disk image container for VirtualBox. VDIs are an exact clone of the operating system build environment that anyone can download and use on another machine. Hyper-V: What's the Best Virtual Machine? For many users, it saves time to download and install an operating system in VirtualBox. You can download a VDI, load it in VirtualBox (or another virtual machine tool), and load the pre-built operating system environment. So with VirtualBox you get the best of both worlds - it's free, and it allows you to run both Windows and macOS simultaneously so you can switch between them as required without having to reboot.A virtual disk image (VDI) is the image of a VirtualBox virtual hard disk. And while Bootcamp is also a free option, it doesn't let you run macOS and Windows simultaneously (you have to reboot the machine every time you want to switch to the other operating system). While there are other options available (such as Parallels and VMware Fusion), VirtualBox is free. Give your Windows 7 virtual machine a name. To run Windows on a Mac, you need to use virtualization software such as VirtualBox. Now you can install Windows 7 in a virtual machine, using VirtualBox. Here are the main steps involved in installing Windows on a Mac: This enables you to run Windows-only applications on your Mac. By using VirtualBox, you can install Windows on your Mac.

VirtualBox is free software that allows you to install different operating systems on your machine. Here I explain how to install Windows on a Mac using the (free) virtualization software, VirtualBox.