I don't know what a virtual appliance is but it looks like you have to buy them. You deffinitely need a full copy of windows but it supports anything from at least .98 up and maybe even .95.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:49 AM Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: Would I be right to assume that you need a full copy of Windows. It looks that way from reading the manual, but then what is a virtual appliance and does it get installed under Windows? On Nov 22, 2007, at 12:01 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I guess it depends on your work style, in the beginning, I wanted to > be able to use windows and Mac os without having to carry two > computers around so bootcamp was the perfect solution. It's easy > enough to restart the system in either and the advantage of having a > fully running os are that everything works in windows which is not > or was not the case for me with fusion which pains me a bit due to > this project and I suspect I'll get more of them. I am going to do > some studying though because I found out some things today about the > vmware tools that may allow me to over come the problems at least on > the Imac. I found for instance that you can actually run vmware > tools from within windows instead of from the mac side which hides > the actions from us so I am going to give that a whirl but not any > time soon as I have spent a lot of hours recovering my systems from > this little experiment. > > > On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Tim Grady wrote: > > I don't know much about fusion so I am just asking, you can use a > virtual disk so what is the advantage of a windows partition? > On Nov 21, 2007, at 7:04 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> I had been using bootcamp because I knew it would work. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac >> OS X by >> theblind" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:20 PM >> Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: >> >> >> Why did you decide to install bootcamp? >> On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:58 PM, David Poehlman wrote: >> >>> 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... >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
