Heyas! A virtual appliance is just a fancy term for a pre installed and configured virtual machine, so if you purchased a Windows virtual appliance, it would be a pre-installed Windows. Some virtual appliances are free, some aren't, and they all are for different purposes. One I use is called JumpBox and it's a preinstalled OS with Trac, a project management webapp. Saves me the time of having to install and set things up.
You definitely need a full copy of Windows to install in fusion. Lastly, I'm not completely sure, but I vaguely remember there being unattended setup for one or both of the hypervisors for OS X where you can just enter in a serial before installing the OS and it'll deal with it for you. If not, there's ways to modify the install disk to make it unattended. cheers, jane On Nov 23, 2007 5:43 AM, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
