A couple of months ago, I got Mac OSX working as a Virtual Machine running under VirtualBox on my Windows 7 host. A few weeks later, after a VirtualBox update, the VM stopped working for some reason.

I just got around to re-creating the VM, and since I’ve been having to piece this together from half a dozen sources, I thought I’d write my own tutorial. I’ve already done this once tonight (well, when this post is published it will be last night), so I know it works; I’m just going to do exactly what I did three hours ago, taking screenshots along the way. Since it’s kind of long, I’ll split it into two parts. Part two will go up Friday.

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Apparently, I can’t use my network-shared HP Deskjet 5650 in Vista.  You see, Vista only supports this printer using a generic driver when connecting via USB or parallel cable.

In other words, if I want to print in Vista using my HP Deskjet 5650, I have to be directly connected to it.  I can’t set it up on a server – either Linux or Windows – and share it with the Vista machine.

That is extremely lame.