i am trying to run a program that was made for a windows platform. i am using boot camp and it is asking for an installer disk for windows 7. is there a simple way to get it to run on my mac without having to run a windows 7
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 8 gig ram, 750gig hd
No. You need Windows on your computer in some way to run a Windows program. Boot Camp only creates a FAT32 partition on your hard drive to get you started to install Windows to. You still need to provide your own legal copy of Windows 7 to install onto the new partition.
No. You need Windows on your computer in some way to run a Windows program. Boot Camp only creates a FAT32 partition on your hard drive to get you started to install Windows to. You still need to provide your own legal copy of Windows 7 to install onto the new partition.
You need a full version of a 64bit Windows 7 disk (about $300) to run Windows on your Mac via Bootcamp.
There is no way around it. Once you install it, Windows is locked to that hardware and it's a pain to change it with Microsoft.
https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
what program are you running that is requiring you to insert the windows 7 DVD?
His question is ambigious because you dont know if they are asking about windows installation or if a program is specifically asking for the DVD because its needs some core componet from windows.
one of my friends has written a program in windows for keeping stats and wanted to have me run it on my computer. i have no clue what he wrote it in.
you can try this: macs have a small compatibility layer so you don't have to install windows to run some things
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/
that is one program that uses that layer
Wine is another popular program
no i dont have windows installed
thanks for the info.
lastly if he made it in Java, you wont need anything. Java can be used across multiple platforms without having to install: "linux", "windows", "etc". Hopefully it works without having to resort to getting a full copy of windows.
JustDana wrote:
you can try this: macs have a small compatibility layer so you don't have to install windows to run some things
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/
that is one program that uses that layer
Wine is another popular program
Macs have no compatibility layer. The layer you are talking about is Wine. Crossover uses Wine... as well as other programs like Wineskin... even Transgamings Cider porting tool that many games use is a fork off of Wine. Wine is not part of Mac OS X at all by itself. It would be nice if Apple would put some money behind making it better and maybe building it in so Windows apps could run, but it goes against apple principles of "do it our way"
you need to do deeper research.
how do i get windows 7 on my mac to run a pc application?
