I had a few issues when I tried to use a Boot Camp partition. But I
didn't get the issues you seem to be having. Personally though, I
dropped Boot Camp completely. I now use Windows entirely under VM.
It's more efficient, more flexible because you can file share with
Mac partitions, and it's easier to control. If your machine is
adequate spec, you might want to think about doing that. I would be
happy to help where I can. Fusion has a very easy Windows install
routine. What it actually does is generates an unnattended install
script and use that. But back to your issues. I am at a bit of a
loss as to why your devices may not work. Unless you haven't
installed the VMWare tools. I cannot remember whether that process
is automatic when you're using a Boot Camp partition. But I found
that in any event, there are problems with Windows screen-readers in
the dual-config environment. Under XP, DCM doesn't work properly in
one or other environment, so it's a little pointless really. That
was my primary motivation for ditching Boot Camp. Also, under
Fusion, your virtual hard disk is usually dynamic. In other words,
you configure the maximum size for your drive and then it grows and
shrinks as appropriate depending on what you have stored on it. So
for instance; I set my maximum capacity to 160 GB. But I only have 5
GB of data. Thus, my virtual hard disk is 5GB. When I add another
5GB of data, the virtual drive grows to 10 GB. And it shrinks again
if I remove the extra data. With a Boot Camp partition, the
partition is static. If you set it to 160 GV in size, that's how it
stays come what may. So there are lots of things in favour of VM as
opposed to Boot Camp.
On 17 Apr 2007, at 13:34, Gabe Vega wrote:
hey hey1 all right this thing is cool.
I need a little bit of guidance though because I am lost, when first
booting windows xp pro I had a full boot and the desktop loaded. but
no keyboard or mouse activity either way i didn't get anyting out of
it, including sound etc. granted I am booting off the bootcamp
partition but am willing to install xp directly but don't know how,
can I get some advise please on the best way to do this? thanks.
