same thing. once established, click the bootcamp partition and go have a cup of coffee.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Chesworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:42 AM Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: hey david - do you mean it takes ages to load the partition as a virtual machine, or that windows takes ages to boot running native? just wondering because if its the latter, i might give the idea a miss. scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:07 PM Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: > and when you launch the boot camp partition after that, it takes forever > to > load. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thuy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:57 AM > Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: > > > Hey Scott. That happened to me. What I discovered was that fusion > brings up an authentication window, but doesn't take the focus into > it. The best thing to do is to go into your home folder and remove the > partial virtual machine, and start again, letting fusion configure the > bootcamp partition. I think it's in your username/library/application > support/vmware/bootcamp. Don't worry, it will just recreate a new > virtual machine. Then when it gives you that message about > preparation, bring up the window chooser and you'll find an > authentication window. get into that window and authenticate, then > wait for fusion to do all its configuring. you might have to wait some > time to let it install vmware tools as well, then it might restart the > virtual machine. Hope this helps. > > Cheers > > Thuy > > On 26/11/2007, Scott Chesworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> on the topic of fusion, has anybody successfully virtualised their >> bootcamp >> partition? >> >> I'm running fusion v1.1 here but whenever i try to virtualise my bootcamp >> partition, i run the bootcamp machine from the library in fusion, it >> tells >> me its preparing the partition for use, and then just sits there >> apparently >> doing nothing for hours until i force quit. Next time I try, I always >> get >> a >> message giving a path to the virtual machine its just tried to create and >> telling me its damaged. >> >> If anyones had more luck than me i'd love to know about it. it'd be >> handy >> not to always need to reboot, but idealy I still want to keep bootcamp >> there >> for situations where I need a bit better performance out of the mbp. >> >> Scott >> >> >> >> > > >
