VirtualBox, Win7, and iTunes

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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On 04/11/2013 12:20 PM, ssc1478 wrote:
> My family has been using Ubuntu since 8.04 and its been great.  But my
> kids now have iPhones and are wanting to sync up with iTunes.
> 
> I've tried a few times the iTunes/Wine option and have never been able
> to get it to work.  I don't want to go down that path.
> 
> I am now thinking of installing VirtualBox on my son's Ubuntu laptop
> (12.04 lts), and then getting a copy of Win7 and installing it in the
> partition so that he will have access to iTunes.
> 
> Is this a viable option?  I want to find out as much as I can before I
> experiment because I will have to buy the Win7 license.

Not truly viable (as in "capable of being done with means at hand..." --
you'll need that license, and then Windows guest will have to maintained
with constant security updates etc.), but technically possible. I have
tested this setup years ago with a very early version of Virtualbox,
using bridged networking setup for Windows guest. All seemed to work,
but in the end I found it too cumbersome.

Sarunas Burdulis
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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