I have even personally experienced the Windows 8.1 installed using the Boot Camp Assistant on a separate partition. I did good amount of research on the internet reading various posts and reviews on the performance issues one might have by installing windows on virtual machine. Frankly speaking, it’s a piece of cake if you do everything right. Also, I will post instructions to use these images in Oracle Cloud soon, so check back to this blog in about a week.This post demonstrates how to install Windows on your VMware Fusion on Mac.

Let me know if these VM images worked for you in the comments section below. So, doublecheck with your Vendor account manager before using these images. The default user to login to these VMs is IEUser and Password is passw0rd! So why wait, head over to and download your copy of the VM.ĭisclaimer: Every Enterprise’s agreement with Software vendors like Microsoft are different. If you put some elbow grease, then you can also import these to a cloud platform and use them there. They also provide them in different VM formats that you can import to VirtualBox, Vagrant, VMware and Parallels. They have Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Operating Systems with IE8, IE9, IE11 and MSEdge browsers preinstalled. There is no need to worry about buying extra licenses for these VMs and these VM Images will meet most people’s needs. And here is a resource that helps you in these situations.Īs part of Microsoft Edge Browser Developer support, Microsoft has 90day evaluation license Virtual Machine Images available for you to download for free. With Windows7 long gone, It is always a challenge to procure a VM for this. I have seen Oracle EBS Customers looking for Windows 7 VM to install Oracle Forms Builder for some customization development work as part of their EBS upgrade project. So you will often end up looking for a specific version of Windows like Windows 7 with IE10 browser etc. Though you can launch Oracle Forms on Mac or Linux using different ways, You may not be able to reproduce a peculiar error that the user is facing, which is more tied to the OS and Browser version they are using. Most Oracle Applications users use windows desktops to access Oracle Forms-based applications, which require Java-enabled web browsers. Even though Linux and macOS are popular, In the Oracle Applications world, you will end up with a requirement to have a Windows desktop.

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