Yea, the thing I like about the VM is that if something happens to
your Windows instillation like a virus or something it looks like you
can just dump the machine and restore a backup.
On Nov 24, 2007, at 11:38 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Boot Camp will be essentially a full Windows machine. One machine
with two operating systems. Virtual machines were invented for
testing purposes. It has been around for years, but is just now
becoming main stream. I say that to say virtual machines has some
glitches but they work well. Boot Camp will be exactly like having a
Windows box. HTH
On Nov 24, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Tim Grady wrote:
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...
