If that scares you, then you might be better off installing SQL Server on your Mac via a Docker container. And because you’re using VirtualBox, switching between macOS and Windows is as easy as switching between any other application.Īs mentioned, this method involves Windows. The result of this is that you’ll have both Windows and SQL Server running on your Mac. You can follow our blog for new images we release for VirtualBox.Here I’ll show you how to install SQL Server on a Mac with VirtualBox running Windows (a free trial edition). It is a free and powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product available for most of the operating systems such as Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and ported version for FreeBSD. VirtualBox is the most easiest way to run secondary OS on your primary operating system, If your hardware doesn’t allow you to install any other operating system then VirtualBox comes in hand. We do not install ‘Guest Additions’ in the OS or add any kind of stuff, read our privacy policy.

Here you can follow the guide how to attach/configure VDI image with VirtualBox. You can check FAQs for Credentials( Username & Password) for VDI images. At the moment we have plans to offer you 30+ Linux/Unix distributions, we may add more to our list in near future, you can also send us suggestions if we are missing any popular distribution from our list. We offer images for both architectures 32bit and 64bit, you can download for free for both architectures.

From here you can download and attach the VDI image to your VirtualBox and use it. We offer open-source (Linux/Unix) virtual machines (VDIs) for VirtualBox, we install and make them ready-to-use VirtualBox images for you.

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