Watch this great video talking about this. "How do i share my files with the VM and me?". Now that we have the VM up and running with Paint.NET, you might be asking. You can reject your Windows Installer from your computer (if using CD) or from the VM.) Setup everything and go install Paint.NET! When your VM has restarted, you will not need to boot to the CD as you just installed Windows.ī8. You'll want to click on "Custom Install" and select "Drive 0" and click on next. Go through the Windows Installer until you get to here. iso, click on the little folder icon on the right of the window and locate where the file is and select it. If you are using your CD drive, select "Host Drive". You should get something like this pop-up. VMware Fusion is another popular virtualization software for Macbooks.
After you did that, you'll want to select the VM you made and click on "Start".ī5. Get Windows 10 and Paint Shop Pro on Mac OS X With VMware Fusion. If it doesn't say, just choose 64-bit).ī4. Go through the new window the has appeared and make sure it's the correct bit (32-bit, or 64-bit. On the top of your Virtualbox window, click on "New", this will create a new VM for you to use.ī3. If you have a Windows CD, put it into your CD drive. Install Paint.NET on the VM and Enjoy!ī1. Double-click on the new installed VM and boot into Windows! (the password is "Passw0rd!")Ī6. ovf, you should get a window like this: Click on "Import" and wait.Ī5.
ovf (make sure you have Virtualbox installed and opened).Ī4. zip folder and wait for it to be done copying the folder to your downloads folder.Ī3. This will take a bit of time, so go get yourself something to eat or drink.Ī2. At the moment, the latest build of Windows is "1809")" and then click on "DOWNLOAD. IMPORTANT!!! - From this part of the tutorial, you will have to choose following "a" or "b"Ī - For people who don't have a copy of Windowsī - For people who DO have a copy of WindowsĪ1. Download a virtual machine from here (which is a real microsoft website with VMs), and select "MSEdge on Win10 (which stands for Windows 10) Stable XXXX (the Xs stand for what build of Windows you'll be getting. Go through the installer and then run the Virtualbox software, which is located in the Applications folder. dmg file you downloaded and run the "Virtualbox.pkg" inside of the installer.ģ. First thing to do is to download Virtualbox and select "OS X hosts".Ģ. This tutorial is very quick and can be easily done.ġ. VM are short for Virtual Machine which are an emulation of an Operating System (OS) being ran on your hardware without the need of extra hard drives to install the OS on, but kept on one drive. There is no way Paint.NET can work on macOS even with Wine installed, so follow the steps in this tutorial.
Today, I would like to show you how to install Paint.NET on macOS using Virtualbox (VM Software).