Complications with windows 7?

[RareEarthMetal]

I have the basic macbook and I want to know what are the possible problems I could face through installing windows 7 via sun's virtual box.

I was advised to back up stuff. Im not sure what and if its necessary or not because im running it virtually.

can it effect mac os x?

if so how?

 

[mathcolo]

If you're doing it through VirtualBox, you have no need to back up. Nothing can go wrong.

 

[Andrmgic]

As long as you don't tell virtual box to use your physical hard drive instead of creating a virtual one, you'll be just fine.

 

[elgrecomac]

Well...

I installed both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Win 7 under Fusion with no backup....come to think of it, why should I worry. Its just an app running inside another app. Then Time Machine backs up my VM instances. No problemo.

 

[Stridder44]

As other's have said, you're running it in a virtual box. The only thing that could go wrong is the Windows 7 installation itself. You have nothing to worry about (on the Mac side anyway).

 

[Eidorian]

I hope you have a backup regardless of installing Windows 7.