Hi all, I thought some might find interesting the experiences I've gained by installing and attempting to use fusion on my imac and macbook. I decided after going through this that fusion and most likely paralells is not for me.
I first installed it on my Macbook using bootcamp as the virtual machine. After a lot of trial and error, I realized that I was not going to get jaws activated nor was I going to settle the video intercept issue. I have to day though that I was favorably impressed with the ease of use and accessibility of the vmware interface considering the complexity of the job it has to do . I then proceeded to install it on my Imac this is a core2 duo 2.16ghz system with 3gb of ram and an 500gb hd. Again, I was impressed with the interface and also on both the speed of the final product although I didn't perform any heavy tasks. I was not impressed though by the number of drivers I had to reinstall and that I had to reinstall them each time I shut down and restarted the vm. I guess without jaws in the mix, and a bit of tinkering, this could be a good solution. I only tried it ow because I needed a more efficient environment in which to work, but I'll settle for two computers one for the windows side of the project and the other for the Mac side of it. Lastly, be warened, you will find your self having to reactivate windows if you use fusion after installing windows through bootcamp and if you decide you want to just boot into windows directly, another activation and then if you want to use fusion again, another activation...
