Gaming in a Virtual box is a bad idea. You wont have the great 3D support that you desire and applications that require a lot of resources will lag. Some games will probably work, like minecraft and minesweeper. But running heavy programs like Battlefield, Skyrim and similar will not work.

You can use VirtualBox, Parallels or VMWare (links lead to academic versions) to run Windows on your Mac. If you have Before you do anything else, make sure your Mac is updated to the latest version of OS X your computer supports, and verify it has 8GB or more of RAM.

Installing Oracle VirtualBox on a Mac

1. Download the latest version of Oracle VirtualBox for OS X hosts.
2. Go to your Downloads folder and double click on the VirtualBox disk image file (dmg) you just downloaded.
3. Double click on the VirtualBox.
4. Click Continue.
5. Click Continue.
6. Click Install.

Like VMware Fusion, Virtual Box is available in Mac, Windows, and Linux versions, and supports almost any Intel-based emulated system you could want, including ancient ones like DOS and OS/2. As mentioned earlier, it’s free to use.

1 Answer. One issue you have is that VirtualBox does not run on non Intel architectures. To run a virtual machine on Apple Silicon currently Parallels, UTM and Docker support Linux ARM VMs. Parallels and UTM also support other OSs that run on ARM including Windows but not macOS.

Let’s check the version of VirtualBox that is already installed on Mac. To open VirtualBox, go to VirtualBox > About VirtualBox. Observe that the current version of installed VirtualBox is 5.2. 30.

VMWare’s free version is VirtualBox’s top competitor. It provides a secure and isolated environment for all your virtualization software needs, such as evaluating new operating systems or testing patches. While VirtualBox works with Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, VMWare functions on Windows and Linux, not Mac.

VirtualBox is multi-platform and runs on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and other systems. When hosted on Mac OS X, you can run a virtualized copy of Mac OS X Server version 10.6.

VirtualBox is 100% safe, this program lets you download os (operating system) and run it as a virtual machine, that doesn’t mean that the virtual os is virus free (well depends, if you download windows for example, it will be like if you had a normal windows computer, there are viruses).

First of all,you need to start your virtual machine.