ahhh, what a night, and what a pickle i find myself in! Not sure if all
this fusion and bootcamp type stuff is off topic really, so if it is please
let me know and feel free to reply off-list about it.
Ok, so thanks to Thuy's tip, I managed to virtualise my bootcamp partition
with fusion. It didn't seem to affect my native boot time, and booting
under virtualisation only took a few more seconds. It hung everytime the
startup sound played under virtualisation for some reason, but thats no
biggy. This means that I'm either very lucky, or David's very unlucky I
guess. Then the problem started. Jaws kicked up a fuss about having no
video intercept installed under virtualisation. stupidly, i chose to
install the intercept and restart, which worked perfectly, but now I can't
for the life of me get it to see the video intercept when i boot the same
partition using bootcamp. I've tried reinstalling the intercept, even
reinstalling jaws and all the shared components. Seeing as this fusion
thing was more of an experiment than anything, I even tried removing jaws
and shared components whilst booted in virtualisation, removing vmware tools
and reinstalling all the bootcamp drivers whilst booted native again just to
be sure that things should be back to how they were before I started
tinkering with fusion, and yet still no joy!
Can anybody either shed some light, or lend me a hammer?
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: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: my fusion experiences:
Scott,
Windows will load slow no matter what system it is on it loads slower
though
as I said in fusion. In fusion, when you click the boot camp partition,
it
gets to the point where you think it's not even going to load.
----- 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 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: my fusion experiences:
hi David,
just to be totally sure we don't have wires crossed here, are you saying
that even if I take fusion out of the equation and reboot in to windows
its
still gonna take an age to load? Even when its not running under
virtualisation? Had to check for sure that you got what I meant with the
last question, because I don't even drink coffee, so you can imagine how
bad
the waiting would be!
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: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: my fusion experiences:
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
