VirtualBox and iTunes

[Henry Dubb]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:36, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > I have a iPhone, and in order to load muusic on it, I need to run iTunes.
> I
> > do not have any Windows (or for that matter Mac) computers. I figured I
> > could get this done using VirtualBox, and an XP image, but every time I
> > strat iTunes in a VirtualBox XP instance. I get a Windows "program crash"
> > message.
> >
> > Has anyone made this work?
>

No, this is partly because of ITunes spying. I can't remember the message
now but it had to do with Itunes verifying my computer.

But the bigger question is why not use Ubuntu 10.04. I know it works out of
the box in Mint 9 rc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4arUsEmj54

>
> I haven't run iTunes inside a windows VM, but for testing purposes I
> keep XP and Win7 images and run those from time to time.
>
> The question is, what are you running, and what VirtualBox?  And when
> do you get the crash message... does it kill the VM, or just iTunes?
>
> FWIW, I don't use the OSE version, I use the VBox packages pulled
> directly from Sun.
>
> Cheers
> Jeff
>
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