if you want to dedicate your full cpu resources to windows for heavy tasks, you would install bootcamp and dual boot so that when you are in window, it's all windows.
----- 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: Saturday, November 24, 2007 10:56 PM Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: Thanks. That's what I thought. Now, can you tell me what the advantage of installing bootcamp is? On Nov 24, 2007, at 4:57 AM, Jane Lee wrote: > 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... >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >
