How to install windows 7 on Mac OS 10.9

Hi, all, I recently purchased a Macbook pro 13 with Retina display, it has MacOS 10.9 on board, but I have some work need be done on Windows, so I have to install Windows7, meaning that I will have a dual boot on my Macbook. I did a bit research on how to do that, but either the apple support has article about installing Windows 7 using boot camp, or the community has a unified answer for that. So I wonder how to install Windows 7 on MacOS 10.9, any help is welcome.
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I use Oracle's free VirtualBox with Windows 7 Home Premium. As you might infer from the name, it is a virtualization solution and does not involve storage partitioning as will Boot Camp. It is responsive whether on an older Core 2 Duo with regular drive, or a Core i5 with underlying SSD. A Haswell and SSD solution would make it sing.
I use two large monitors and you can tell VirtualBox to always launch the Windows guest on the second monitor.
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