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{ 2007 04 17 }

Okay, this is cool

I know this is nothing new, but it’s still cool.

Windows running on a Mac in VMWare

VMware Fusion Beta 3 running Windows XP SP2 on the wife’s new MacBook.

  • Installing VMware: zero hiccups
  • Installing XP in virtual machine: no glitches
  • Running XP: zero issues
  • Installing Office on XP: no problems

I’m sorry, but this rocks.

Posted by Pete on Tuesday, April 17, 2007, at 3:32 pm. Filed under Tech. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

{ 4 } Comments

  1. Patrick Mueller | April 17, 2007 at 4:41 pm | Permalink

    Yeah. Since the second beta release of the VMWare Fusion for Mac, I’ve just stopped using Parallels. Lovin it.

  2. Stu Charlton | April 28, 2007 at 11:57 am | Permalink

    I find Parallels in Coherence mode has been uber cool. MS Outlook next to my Mac apps = wonderful

  3. Frank Wilhoit | May 2, 2007 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    What’s to be sorry about? The fact that you need at least 4Gb of memory to make all that work?

    ;-)

  4. Pete | May 2, 2007 at 1:35 pm | Permalink

    Frank: Actually, there’s “only” 2GB of RAM on the Mac. When XP is running I allocate it 512MB. Don’t know how much overhead VMWare takes, but everything is humming along nicely.

    But the fact that OS’s are RAM hungry doesn’t make the virtualization magic any less cool. The alternative is for my wife, who wants a Mac but needs Windows, is to buy, manage, and synch two physical machines. And that’s not cool at all.

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