Install Linux into VirtualBox

Hello,
I need to harden security on my Mac machines, especially 27" iMac 2013.
How does one install VirtualBox on Mac OS X 10.10.2 ? Yosemite
Many thanks,
7m0u9tAN

7m0u9tAN wrote:
Running Linux inside VirtualBox on Mac OS X 10.10.2 will be more secure.
More secure than what?
If you want to run Linux, then VirtualBox is a good way to do that. But if you are trying to achieve some other goal, please tell us what it is.

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When I go to boot from that external drive will the Linux installed boot loader allow me to select OSX or Linux to actually boot from?
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I'm kinda curious about something. If I boot up off
an external firewire drive at boot time and I have
previously partitioned it into 2 partitions (techtool
or iPartition) is it possible to install a Intel
Linux distro on the 2nd partitition?
When I go to boot from that external drive will the
Linux installed boot loader allow me to select OSX or
Linux to actually boot from?
Even better can I just install Linux on this external
drive in the only partition?
I'm only looking to experiment with a Linux distro
and I don't want to use Parallels anymore so I'm
wondering if I can use an external drive to do so.
TIA,
Peter
Here is an indirect answer. I know you can using Paralles, not sure about the other way though.
http://www.parallels.com/

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http://macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/7073
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Can I install Linux and then use the original Windows 8 OEM product key for a virtual machine on the same computer?

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Install Linux on a Imac 24 to an external drive

Hello everybody
I have an Imac 24 and I am trying to install linux and windows on an external USB hard drive.
Is that possible?
So far that I tried I think I messed it up with the boot loader where to install it.
Is anybody else facing the same problem?
I would appreciate your advice.
Thanks in advance
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Newl Post wrote:
It took me several tries to figure out how to highlight the external drive icon the right way to get the file menu to actually show a Get Info choice. A double-click to highlight did the trick.
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Newl Post wrote:
The external drive is a 1TB drive with 879.12GB left available. Would back up to cd or dvd be reasonable? Or would that require a rediculous number of discs?
It would require a ridiculous amount of discs. 1TB minus around 880GB of free space means it is currently using maybe 200GB or more. Backing up would take almost 300CDs or 43 DVDs. But the real cost would not be the discs, it would be the time to burn and then restore all those discs. And the discs would need to be burned cross-platform so that the Mac can read back the files. Also, since the drive is in NTFS format, it would be easiest to back it up using a Windows PC.
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Hello, My computer crashed, I removed the hard drive and installed it into a hard drive enclosure and now I am trying to get my Thunderbird data off of it

Hello,
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